Strategies of Coping with Stress by Diabetics

This study tries to show the areas of psychological pressures facing people with diabetes and identify strategies of coping with related stress, depending on the style and depending on the sex of the patient. The study is conducted on a sample of 345 patients 95 of whom are first type diabetes and 250 are diabetes type II. To identify psychological pressure, the researcher designed a questionnaire, and she also designed another one to identify strategies of coping with stress. Results show that people with diabetes are under pressure regarding the treatment first, then physical pressure, followed by psychological pressure then followed by family pressure, and finally social pressures. Results also show that strategies used by diabetes type 1 are negative strategies, while type II diabetes are positive strategies.

Coping strategies among cancer patients during chemotherapy

Background: cancer patients experience large physical and emotional challenges related to side effects of chemotherapy drugs, which make coping and adaptation essential issue for coping with disease. Aim: this study was conducted to identify coping strategies among cancer patients during chemotherapy and its relation with patient's age and gender Methods: data were collected from 150 patients from Tishreen university hospital by using brief coping questionnaire in addition to demographical sheet Results : the results revealed that cancer patients tend to use various coping strategies which are problemfocused and emotional- focused, reflected positive and negative coping. The most used coping strategies were active coping strategy (78.66%), followed by seeking social support for instrumental reasons strategy (76.66%), followed by planning strategy (76%), then focus on and venting of emotions (75.33%), followed by acceptance strategy (70.66%), then seeking social support for emotional reasons (68%), then turning to religion (58%). Also results showed that coping strategies changed according to age and gender changing (p < 0.05) where women tend to use emotional- focused coping strategies while aged patients prefer emotional social support and acceptance. Conclusion: emotional issues for cancer patients during chemotherapy require more concern with ongoing assessment for adaptation and coping strategies, for designing appropriate interventions agreed with coping behaviors which cancer patients demonstrate during treatment.