Effectiveness of Resilience Training On Level of Quality Of Life of Mothers Whose Children, Were Between 10- 13, Suffer From Cancer in Imam Khomeini Hospital Of Tehran during the Years 1388- 1389

his study has been done for the purpose of evaluating effect of resilience training on quality of life of mothers whose children suffer from cancer. The statistical population of the study was، all، mothers of cancerous children، between 10 to13. The sufferers had medical files in Imam Khomeini hospital during the years 1388-89. The applied method was a semi-experimental design، consisting pretest- post test، and along with a control group. By random sampling، a people of the 30 mothers selected; they were put in 2 groups equally: a half of them in experimental group and the rest in control group. Questionnaires of Conner-Davidson resilience scale and quality of life (SF36) were utilized for the both ones. The consequences of 9 sessions resilience training، through Covariance analysis، appeared that the mothers under the certain training have more promoted in resilience and level of life quality than the mothers did not enjoy those trainings. The resilience training gave meaningful effect on components such as mental health، low functioning، vitality، body pain، general health and emotional role while there was not the same effect on physical and social functioning. This study comes to the conclusion that the resilience training succeeds in promoting resilience and quality of life of mothers whose children suffer from cancer.