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Relationship Between Ways of Coping and Quality of Life in Married Women: Toward Mental Health Promotion
BACKGROUND: Adaptive ways of coping with stress are as a major component of mental health and also this is considered as a key element in quality of life. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between quality of life and coping mechanisms in married women ages between...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3918203/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24578846 http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ircmj.12728 |
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author | Mirabzadeh, Arash Baradaran Eftekhari, Monir Setareh Forouzan, Ameneh Sajadi, Homeira Rafiee, Hassan |
author_facet | Mirabzadeh, Arash Baradaran Eftekhari, Monir Setareh Forouzan, Ameneh Sajadi, Homeira Rafiee, Hassan |
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description | BACKGROUND: Adaptive ways of coping with stress are as a major component of mental health and also this is considered as a key element in quality of life. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between quality of life and coping mechanisms in married women ages between 18-65 years in order to develop appropriate intervention programs to promote mental health. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This study was a part of interventional project to mental health promotion in married women that completed through a cross sectional studies using two standard questionnaires: Ways of Coping (WOC) and Quality of Life questionnaire (WHO, QOL-BREF). RESULTS: The most and the least used ways in coping with stress were Planful Problem Solving and Confronting Coping. Considering the quality of life, the most and the least scores were related to social dimension and mental health. Also women who have higher quality of life used more Positive Reappraisal way and less Escape-Avoidance way to deal with stress (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: It seems that implementation of an appropriate interventional program related to adaptive ways of coping in order to deal with stress is effective in mental health and quality of life promotion. |
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spelling | pubmed-39182032014-02-27 Relationship Between Ways of Coping and Quality of Life in Married Women: Toward Mental Health Promotion Mirabzadeh, Arash Baradaran Eftekhari, Monir Setareh Forouzan, Ameneh Sajadi, Homeira Rafiee, Hassan Iran Red Crescent Med J Research Article BACKGROUND: Adaptive ways of coping with stress are as a major component of mental health and also this is considered as a key element in quality of life. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between quality of life and coping mechanisms in married women ages between 18-65 years in order to develop appropriate intervention programs to promote mental health. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This study was a part of interventional project to mental health promotion in married women that completed through a cross sectional studies using two standard questionnaires: Ways of Coping (WOC) and Quality of Life questionnaire (WHO, QOL-BREF). RESULTS: The most and the least used ways in coping with stress were Planful Problem Solving and Confronting Coping. Considering the quality of life, the most and the least scores were related to social dimension and mental health. Also women who have higher quality of life used more Positive Reappraisal way and less Escape-Avoidance way to deal with stress (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: It seems that implementation of an appropriate interventional program related to adaptive ways of coping in order to deal with stress is effective in mental health and quality of life promotion. Kowsar 2013-08-05 2013-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3918203/ /pubmed/24578846 http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ircmj.12728 Text en Copyright © 2013, Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal; Licensee Kowsar Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Mirabzadeh, Arash Baradaran Eftekhari, Monir Setareh Forouzan, Ameneh Sajadi, Homeira Rafiee, Hassan Relationship Between Ways of Coping and Quality of Life in Married Women: Toward Mental Health Promotion |
title | Relationship Between Ways of Coping and Quality of Life in Married Women: Toward Mental Health Promotion |
title_full | Relationship Between Ways of Coping and Quality of Life in Married Women: Toward Mental Health Promotion |
title_fullStr | Relationship Between Ways of Coping and Quality of Life in Married Women: Toward Mental Health Promotion |
title_full_unstemmed | Relationship Between Ways of Coping and Quality of Life in Married Women: Toward Mental Health Promotion |
title_short | Relationship Between Ways of Coping and Quality of Life in Married Women: Toward Mental Health Promotion |
title_sort | relationship between ways of coping and quality of life in married women: toward mental health promotion |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3918203/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24578846 http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ircmj.12728 |
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