Coping strategies among children with thalassemia
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
background :- Thalassemia is a chronic genetic hematological disorder affect children from birth and remain for long life as all available treatment is supportive not curative. So that, critical psychological burden result from chronicity of thalassemia and its long-lasting treatment. This psychological burden include anxiety, depression, low selfesteem, guilt and shame. For all of these factors, thalassemic children use coping strategies to mediate psychological burden to maintain quality of life at normal level. Aim: the main point of this study was to evaluate prevalence of coping strategies among children with thalassemia. Methods: - descriptive cross-sectional study is carried out on a sample of 300 of thalassemic children belonging to inpatient and outpatient department at children Hospital of Mansoura University, Egypt. Socio-demographic characteristics and clinical data of the children and the Children's Coping Strategies Checklist- Revision 1 (CCSC- R1) were used to collect data. Results: - The results of studied sample revealed that 74 % of studied sample their age range from 12 years to 18 years with mean and standard deviation score = 13.6 ± 2.7. 65 % studied thalassemic children were females. Avoidance and distraction strategies (Emotion-focused) are the most common used coping strategies with mean and SD 67.86 ± 6.37. Coping strategies are high statistically significant related to age, educational level and duration of illness (P ≤ 0.001). Conclusion:- Thalassemic children addressed psychological disorders. So that, the use of coping strategies believed to be responsible for building the general wellbeing condition of children with thalassemia.
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Ahmed Masoud Ali, Mona Ahmed El-Bilsha, Ahmed Darwish Mohamed
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