Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a very distressing experience for children and requires a special effort of adjustment. Therefore, it seems to be crucial to explore coping resources for the experienced risk condition. In this sense, the study focuses on coping strategies and locus of control in children with ALL during the treatment phase, and on their possible relation. The correlation b...

OBJECTIVE To examine how children's injury attributions and coping strategies relate to procedure-related distress during unplanned medical procedures (laceration repair). METHODS Children (N = 50) with minor lacerations were assessed from emergency department admittance until discharge. Children's attributions of causes regarding their injury were assessed, and the Procedural Behavior Checkl...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the presented study was to determine the relations of styles and strategies of coping with stress and demographic variables with the intensity of PTSD symptoms in persons diagnosed with cancer. The study tried to determine which style of coping with stress is the best predictor of posttraumatic symptoms in the group. METHODS This study was conducted on the group of 150 p...

The present research examined the perceptual style and coping pattern characterizing individuals with functional gastrointestinal disorders. A matched case-control design was adopted to compare differences among the target group of individuals with functional gastrointestinal disorders (n = 40), a pain control group of individuals with rheumatism (n = 40), and the community control group of hea...

Objective: Breast cancer as a most common invasive cancer in women, provoking mental disorders for patients. To adjust with this situation, patients use kind of coping style. In present study, we aimed to determine the relationship between mental disorders and coping style in women with breast cancer.  Methods: This research was a correlational study. 127 women among all women with breast ca...

aim and background: psychological factors have a pivotal role in the chronicity of diseases. chronic pain may lead to depression and disabilities in patients, which may change their quality of life and life style. the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between coping strategies, depression, physical disability, and pain intensity in people with chronic back pain. method and mate...

conclusions the results of the present study give some evidence that allows us to conclude that hardiness and coping strategies affect occupational life quality for both people suffering from type ii diabetes and healthy people. therefore, it is proposed that people strengthen their hardiness and coping strategies, in order to improve their occupational life quality. background due to the epide...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To investigate the influence of coping style on interference caused by a variety of common post-treatment symptoms after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. DESIGN Longitudinal; secondary analysis of data from the original study that examined health-related quality-of-life variables (e.g., depression, well-being) in adult patients treated with conventional bone marrow ...