Shayesteh, Majid, Norozi, Ensiyeh, Ahangari, Hamideh, Moasheri, Bibinarge (2025). An Exploration of Coping Styles in Type 2 Diabetic Patients and their Association with Demographic Factors. , 5(4), 55-63.
Majid Shayesteh; Ensiyeh Norozi; Hamideh Ahangari; Bibinarge Moasheri. "An Exploration of Coping Styles in Type 2 Diabetic Patients and their Association with Demographic Factors". , 5, 4, 2025, 55-63.
Shayesteh, Majid, Norozi, Ensiyeh, Ahangari, Hamideh, Moasheri, Bibinarge (2025). 'An Exploration of Coping Styles in Type 2 Diabetic Patients and their Association with Demographic Factors', , 5(4), pp. 55-63.
Shayesteh, Majid, Norozi, Ensiyeh, Ahangari, Hamideh, Moasheri, Bibinarge An Exploration of Coping Styles in Type 2 Diabetic Patients and their Association with Demographic Factors. , 2025; 5(4): 55-63.

An Exploration of Coping Styles in Type 2 Diabetic Patients and their Association with Demographic Factors

Health Education and Health Promotion
Article 6, Volume 5, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 55-63    PDF (1.03 M)
Authors
Majid Shayesteh1; Ensiyeh Norozi2; Hamideh Ahangari* 3; Bibinarge Moasheri4
1M.D. (Diabetologist), Center for Disease Control, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
2Assistant Professor, Department of Health education and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
3M.Sc. student of Health Education and Health Promotion, Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
4M.Sc. in Community Health Nursing, Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
Abstract
Aim: Diabetes mellitus and the patients’ need for self-care may bring several challenges in the daily life of diabetic patients. This necessitates the obligation to adopt coping strategies against stress in order to adjust with the governing conditions. The purpose of this study was to explore coping styles in type 2 diabetic patients and their potential associations with demographic factors.
Methods: In this descriptive-analytic study, 201 patients with type 2 diabetes were incorporated from the Tehran-based Dornian Care Clinic and evaluated using the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS). Data analysis was performed using SPSS software (ver. 16) at the significance level of 0.05.
Findings: The diabetic patients in this study adopted avoidant (72.1%), emotion-oriented (17.9%), and problem-based (10%) coping strategies. While problem-oriented and emotion-oriented strategies correlated with gender, avoidant style did not. Married individuals used avoidant strategies more than singles. There was a significant relationship only between the use of problem-solving strategies and education level. Also there was a significant relationship between the complications of diabetes and adoption of problem-oriented strategies.
Conclusion: According to the results of this study, diabetic patients have hard times in the face of stresses of life events and the subsequent challenges of their disease. Counseling seems beneficial in order for effective teaching of coping strategies to diabetic patients.

Keywords
Type 2 diabetes; coping strategies; Avoidant strategies; Emotion-oriented strategies; Problem-oriented strategies
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