BACKGROUND Adjusting to chronic disease is a complex process and one that, in the case of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), has received very little attention. The objectives of this study were to identify coping strategies used by patients with IBD and to explore how these strategies are related to psychological characteristics. METHODS A transversal study was designed in which 875 patients ...

this study has done to show the relation between metacognitive strategies with aggression and coping styles in shiraz high school students. methods: in this study, 360 individuals of shiraz high school students between the ages 17-19 (240 females, 120 males) in 88-89 school year, were chosen by multi stage cluster sampling. data collection was done with metacognition questionnaire-30 (mcq-30) b...

BACKGROUND Knowledge about important factors in reduction of burnout is needed, but there is a dearth of burnout intervention program studies and their effects among physicians. The present three-year follow-up study aimed to investigate the roles of coping strategies, job stress and personality traits in burnout reduction after a counselling intervention for distressed physicians. METHODS 22...

We examined, first, differences in dispositional and situational coping, and psychological distress between political ex-prisoners and their matched controls, and second, coping effectiveness in protecting mental health from impacts of imprisonment and military trauma. Thirdly, we tested the hypothesis that compatibility ("goodness of fit") between dispositional and situational coping would pre...

OBJECTIVE Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can have a significant impact on psychological wellbeing and quality of life. How one responds to and copes with IBD may be an important determinant of psychological wellbeing. We aimed to systematically review all published literature regarding coping strategies of IBD patients. METHODS Ovid and Pubmed databases were searched over 6 months. All arti...

BACKGROUND In the US there are over 2.5 million breast cancer survivors (BCSs), most of whom have required some type of intensive treatment. How individuals cope with the treatment process may relate to why neurocognitive problems arise. METHOD We explored the impact of treatment for breast cancer (BC) on performance of the Memory Island task, both on working memory and on the general index o...