Coping Strategies in Children of Parents Deceased from Cancer  and Children of Parents Healed from Cancer

Ghorban Hemati Alamdarloo; Shahram Moradi; Marziyeh Gholami; Zahra Nazari; Parvin Amiri

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Coping Strategies in Children of Parents Deceased from Cancer and Children of Parents Healed from Cancer

Author: Ghorban Hemati Alamdarloo ¹ ; Shahram Moradi ² ; Marziyeh Gholami ^{3
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4} ; Zahra Nazari ¹ ; Parvin Amiri ¹
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1. Special Education Department, School of Education and Psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
2. Department of pedagogy, Religion, and Social Studies, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway.
3. Special Education Department, School of Psychology and Education, Allameh Tabataba&rsquo
4. i University, Tehran, Iran.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Coping Strategies, Children, Parents, Cancer
From:International Journal of Public Health Research 2021;11(2):1474-1479
CountryMalaysia
Language:English
Abstract: Introduction:This study aimed to compare coping strategies in children of parents deceased from cancer and children of parents healed from cancer in the city of Shiraz, Iran.
Methods:One-hundred and fifteen people [58 children of parents healed from cancer and 57 children of parents deceased from cancer] were recruited in this study via a convenience sampling method. Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations was used to measure different types of coping strategies [task-oriented coping strategy, emotion-oriented coping strategy, and avoidance coping strategy].
Conclusion:This study highlights the importance of coping strategies in families with a cancer parent which demands the importance of teaching appropriate coping strategies in order to reduce the adverse consequence of cancer in the family.
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