background: thalassemia is a chronic disease with serious clinical and psychological challenges. the incidence of thalassemia in a family member may cause a psychological crisis in all family members and in this case coping strategies are required. this clinical trial study aimed to determine the impact of training coping strategies on their use by major thalassemic adolescents referred to dast...

OBJECTIVE To identify the stress-prevalence and coping-strategies among University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) medical students. METHODS This was an observational study conducted among 234 UKM first and third year medical students. Standardized questionnaire on stress and coping strategies was used. Stress data was related to subjective experiences on some positive and negative adjectives such ...

Background: Infertility is a stressful event for both couples; therefore investigation of coping styles can be helpful to show how to improve mental health in couple infertile. The aim of this study was to compare individual coping processes of men and women in infertile couples. Materials and Methods: Study participants were comprised of 142 men and women who were referred to Fatemeh Alzahra F...

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...

In a study designed to examine how intimate partners' coping processes with regard to infertility predicted depressive symptoms across the course of a treatment cycle, 43 couples completed assessments in the week prior to and the week after receiving a negative pregnancy result from an alternate insemination attempt by the partner. Depressive symptoms in both partners increased significantly af...

This study aimed to compare coping strategies in children of parents deceased from cancer and healed the city Shiraz, Iran. One-hundred fifteen people [58 57 cancer] were recruited this via a convenience sampling method. Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations was used measure different types [task-oriented strategy, emotion-oriented avoidance strategy]. The results showed that task-oriented ...

BACKGROUND There is increasing focus on patient-centred communicative approaches in medical consultations, but few studies have shown the extent to which patients' positive coping strategies and psychological assets are addressed by general practitioners (GPs) on a regular day at the office. This study measures the frequency of GPs' use of questions and comments addressing their patients' copin...

After stroke ≈75% of surviving patients will have problems in mobility, fatigue, emotion, and cognition, measured ≤5 years post stroke. Many patients with stroke will also experience reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Known predictors of HRQoL are functional constraints, age, sex, socioeconomic status, depression, and coping strategy. Patients with stroke use insufficient active, p...

objectives: from the psychological point of view, coping strategies and attitudes have considerable effects on people’s tendency towards risky behavior, including opioid substance abuse. dysfunctional attitudes are attitudes and beliefs that predispose the individual toward depression and psychological disorder, generally speaking. usually, people use three types of coping strategies when confr...

background: infertility is described nearly universally as an extremely stressful condition with enduring effects on the marriage as well as each partner’s well-being. the present study was done to compare stress reactions, coping styles, subjective well-being and its sub-scales in fertile and infertile women. materials and methods : this analytic cross-sectional study enrolled 120 women (60 fe...