“…This study also found that optimism was positively correlated with self-management ability, most likely because the more positive AF patients' attitudes toward the disease and life after RFCA, the more likely they are to use positive coping methods to manage the disease, resulting in stronger self-management ability [35]. In conclusion, when caring for women with AF following RFCA, healthcare professionals should focus on positive psychological capital and help patients develop positive psychological qualities, which can be guided by positive psychology theory, and improve patients' self-efficacy or confidence, resilience, hope, and optimism through group psychological guidance [36], PERMA model intervention [37], and role model education [38], etc. To address patients' postoperative psychological issues while cultivating their positive and healthy psychological qualities, thereby promoting patients' self-management ability and early disease recovery.…”