The Relationship Between Islamic Coping Methods and Psychological Well-Being with Adaptation and Pain Tolerance in Patients with Breast Cancer

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between Islamic coping strategies and mental cohesion with adjustment to illness and pain tolerance in patients with breast cancer.

The method of this study was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population consisted of all female patients with breast cancer oncology and radiotherapy clinic in Mashhad in 1397, 100 of whom were purposively selected. The basis of inclusion criteria were selected. The instruments used in this study were the Islamic Coping Strategies Scale (Ehteshamzadeh (2009)), the Flensberg et al. (2006) Psychological Cohesion Questionnaire, the Watson Cancer Adjustment Scale (1988), and the McGill Pain Tolerance Questionnaire (2008).

Analysis of data from regression analysis and Pearson correlation showed that there is a significant positive relationship between Islamic coping strategies with disease adjustment and pain tolerance. And in their subscales, there is a significant relationship between behavioral and emotional dimensions with adjustment to illness and pain tolerance in a positive direction. And there is no significant relationship only in the cognitive dimension (0.01). There was also a significant relationship between feeling of psychological cohesion, coping with illness and pain tolerance in a positive direction.

In general, it can be concluded that Islamic coping strategies and feeling of psychological cohesion can predict a person's appropriate adaptation to illness and pain tolerance.