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Introduction: Child getting diabetes is associated with creating and increasing concern among family members and "mother" to experiencing higher stress. The purpose of this study is to compare the strategies to deal with stress in mothers of children with type I diabetes with mothers of healthy children
Method: This cross-sectional study was performed on two groups of mothers of children with type I diabetes and mothers with healthy children admitted to hospital in Arak University of Medical Sciences were selected and sampling method was convenience. Data collected trey Perceived Stress Scale, the way to deal with stress and maternal demographic questionnaire that its validity and reliability has been measured by using SPSS v.18, Chi-square and T-test was used for data analyzing
Results: means of problem-focused coping and emotion in mothers of children with diabetes, respectively 33.80 +/- 4.4 and 92.52 +/- 5.6 and the mothers of healthy children 110.73 +/- 11.6 and 53.40 +/- 6.6, respectively. Statistically significant difference between style and emotion-oriented coping a problem there [p<0.0001]. Average scores on perceived stress in mothers of children with diabetes, 42.13 +/- 2.9 and the mothers of healthy children 27.96 +/- 3.7, which was statistically significant difference between groups with perceived stress, there [p<0.0001]
Discussion: mothers in stressful situations when they feel powerful and good enough to be able to make a sick child to the support of and enable the healing process for him. Only increased in this patient is not enough to increase the patient's and family's ability to cope effectively with stress resulting from diabetes is importance