جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « coping appraisal » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

Background and Tobacco use has an increasing trend. This study aimed at comparing the processes of motivation theory in the prediction of tobacco use in male high school students in Noshahr, Iran.
This cross sectional study was carried out in 440 high school students in Noshahr. The subjects were chosen through stratified random sampling. Data was collected using a questionnaire consisting of demographic questions and 55 items based on the constructs of protection motivation theory. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire was confirmed. Data analysis was done in SPSS applying Pearson correlation coefficient and linear regression tests.
The processes of coping appraisal (β=0.40) and threat appraisal (β=-0.19) could together predict 22.9% of the will for not using tobacco. The prediction rate of tobacco use behavior by these two processes was 25.6% in which the role of coping appraisal (β=-0.33) was more predominant than that of the threat appraisal (β=0.31).
The present study showed that the cognitive intervening process of coping appraisal is more successful in the prediction of the protection motivation and tobacco use behavior. So, enhancing self-efficacy and efficiency of response and reducing the perceived costs for not using tobacco among the students could be used as a principle that aims at reducing tobacco use.

Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the world and in Iran as well. The incidence of this disease continues to climb. The present study was therefore aimed to investigate the copping with skin cancer among farmers in Chaldoran County in 2015.
Materials and Totally, 238 farmers from the rural areas of Chaldoran County participated in this analytical-descriptive study. They were selected through a multi-stage random sampling process. A reliable and valid questionnaire used by Tazval et.al was exploited for data collection. The gathered data were analyzed by the use of descriptive and analytic statistics in SPSS software (v. 21). A statistically significance level of p≤ 0.05 was considered. Ethical issues such as confidentiality of studied community were all considered.
A statistically significant relationship was observed between the education level of participants (p=0. 001) and their income status (p=0. 025). About 12.2% of respondents showed high perceived self-efficacy towards skin cancer protective behaviors. It was further found that response self-efficacy was low among 45.5% of community. The most of the farmers (61.8%) had moderate response cost towards skin cancer protective behaviors. The assessment of farmers copping status with skin cancer revealed that 182 (76.5%), 8 (3.4%) and 48 20.1%) respondents have an unacceptable, borderline, and acceptable copping appraisal, respectively.
The results of this study indicate that the farmers’ coping appraisal status towards skin cancer was low. Thus, it is necessary to design and implement appropriate interventions in this field.

Threat appraisal process in Protection Motivation Theory evaluates the factors associated with the behavior that potentially creates danger، including the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards accompanying the behavior، the severity of the danger، and ones vulnerability to it. Coping appraisal is a cognitive mediating process which evaluates one''s ability to cope with or to avert threatened danger including perceived self efficacy، response efficacy and perceived costs of protective behavior. There are some evidences regarding their effects on intention and behavior of some safety areas but there isn’t any study on intention and behavior of Nutritional Prevention of Cancer. The purpose of this study was to compare Coping Appraisal and Threat Appraisal in predicting Nutritional Prevention of Cancer behaviors and intention among Women in Yazd city. In this descriptive cross-sectional study، a total number of 220 w omen referring to health centers - therapy were studied. A valid and reliable questionnaire was used for data collection. It was a self-report questionnaire including demographic variables and subscales for measuring coping appraisal، threat appraisal، Nutritional Prevention of Cancer intention and behavior. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were examined and approved. The data were then analyzed using SPSS software and ANOVA، Pearson correlation coefficient and Liner Regression statistical tests. There was a significant negative correlation between threat appraisal and intention and Nutritional behavior Prevention of Cancer and positive significant correlation between coping appraisal and intention and Nutritional behavior Prevention of Cancer at 0. 01 level. Coping and threat appraisal both predicted %23/2 of variance in Nutritional behavior Prevention of Cancer in which the coping appraisal (ß=0. 28) exceeded the threat appraisal (ß=0. 24). The prediction of variances in Nutritional behavior Prevention of Cancer intention through coping Appraisal and Threat Appraisal came to 28/4%. Only coping appraisal was statistically significant. Cognitive mediating process of coping appraisal was a more powerful predictor of intention than Nutritional behavior Prevention of Cancer. Therefore decreasing perceived cost، and increasing self efficacy and response efficacy aimed at facilitating the acceptance of safe behavior could be note-worthy as a principle in education.