بررسی مقایسۀ کیفیت زندگی و راهبردهای مقابله با استرس در بیماران سرطانی و افراد غیر مبتلا در شهر یزد

Introduction: Cancer is a crippling and incurable disease, which affects on physical health as well as mental and social well- being and disrupts patient&rsquo;s life. The present study was done to measure the rate of quality of life and coping strategies in people with cancer and non-cancer in Yazd city. Methods: This was an analytical and cross sectional study in which performed on 53 women with cancer who referred to private oncology clinic and 94 non-cancer ones in Yazd. The sampling method was purposeful. Data were collected by demographic questionnaire, coping inventory for stressful situation questionnaire (CISS) and a socio-economic well-being scale in people with cancer. SPSS-16 was used to analyze data. Results: Problem-focused coping style was the most common coping strategy among the participants (Mean&plusmn; SD 50.34&plusmn; 7.89) and the rate of quality of life among the participants were 47.47&plusmn; 7.72. The results of Pearson correlation showed a positive significant relationship between problem-focused and avoidant coping styles with quality of life and its subscales (p< 0.01).However, there was no relationship between emotion-focused coping style with quality of life and its subscales. One-way analysis of variance showed that people with cancer significantly has negative avoidant style in compare with non-cancer women, also, there was no significant difference between both groups in terms of other variables (p >0.05). Conclusion: Generally, the results showed that appropriate use of stress-coping strategies is effective in people&rsquo;s quality of life. Hence, the use of psychological interventions and stress management training with problems are recommended to enhance psychological state and quality of life among patients with cancer.