BACKGROUND The relationship between life stressors, coping and affective disorder is interesting when predicting onset of a affective disorder and relapse of mood episodes. METHODS A literature review of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies concerning coping and affective disorder in adults including a Medline and Embase search was conducted. RESULTS 11 cross-sectional studies and 17 lo...

OBJECTIVES Coping with difficult care-related situations is a common challenge for health-care professionals. How these professionals deal with the regrets they may experience following one of the many decisions and interventions they must make every day can have an impact on their own health and quality of life, and also on their patient care practices. To identify professionals most at need f...

OBJECTIVE The study examines the association between mental adjustment, coping strategies [emotion (EF) and problem focused (PF)], and psychological distress. METHOD Sixty end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients were interviewed a year or more after they began dialysis, measured by the COPE, Mental Adjustment to Cancer (MAC), and Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) scales. RESULTS The main findin...

In this essay in honor of Donald Oken, I emphasize coping as a key concept for theory and research on adaptation and health. My focus will be the contrasts between two approaches to coping, one that emphasizes style—that is, it treats coping as a personality characteristic—and another that emphasizes process—that is, efforts to manage stress that change over time and are shaped by the adaptatio...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to explain the relationship between work locus of control and burnout in Polish physiotherapists through the mediation of coping styles. In particular, we hypothesized that external work locus of control may have a positive direct relationship with burnout symptoms via positive relationship with emotion-focused and avoidant coping styles, and a negative rela...

BACKGROUND Extensive research has shown that ethnic health disparities are prevalent and many psychological and social factors influence health disparities. Understanding what factors influence health disparities and how to eliminate health disparities has become a major research objective. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of coping style, stress, socioeconomic status (SES), ...

the relationship between caring burden and coping strategies in hemodialysis patients caregivers     abbasi a [1] , ashrafrezaee n [2] , asayesh h [3] *, shariati a [4] , rahmani h [5] , mollaei e [6] , bathaei sa [7] , shoori bidgoli a [8]     received: 8 mar, 2012 accepted: 21 jun , 2012    abstract   bachground & aims: patients with end stage renal disease require long term treatment and car...

background: hemodialysis patients are exposed to different stressful factors and have to use coping strategies as supportive processes. the goal of the present study is to investigate coping styles of hemodialysis patients. materials and methods: this is a descriptive analytical study conducted on 96 patients referring to hemodialysis centers affiliated to isfahan university of medical sciences...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The current study examined the change of caregiver burden and the development of the quality of the partner relation in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). METHODS During a 2-year period, deterioration, behavioural problems, caregiver burden, general psychopathology, quality of life, social support, coping strategies and relationship quality were inspected in 63 FTD caregiver-care ...