The Effectiveness of Stress Inoculation Training on Vocational Stress of active elderly

The aim of present study was to examine effectiveness of stress inoculation training on vocational stress of active elderly Parkinson's patients. In this pretest–posttest quasi- experimental research with control group, 30 Parkinson’ patient who referred to Bessat Hospital in Tehran at 1396 were selected via convenience sampling method and randomly divided into the experimental group (n=15) and control group (n=15). The experimental group underwent eight–sessions of stress inoculation training program and the control group did not receive any intervention. Data was collected using Rice’ Vocational Stress questionnaire (1992). Collected data was analyzed by covariance analysis. The results showed that stress inoculation training decreases vocational stress of elderly Parkinson's patients in a way that a significance difference in resiliency (p<0.01) between the experimental and control groups after the intervention. So, using stress management techniques based on stress inoculation training program can helps Parkinson's Elderly to cope with the inevitable difficulties of working life.