Designing and evaluating the educational package of Islamic coping style confronting Coronavirus disease

Coping styles are cognitive and behavioral efforts that people avoid in stressful cases which also plays a pivotal role in their physical and mental health. As a type of coping styles we can refer to the Islamic one. The objective of the present paper is to create and evaluate an educational program centered on Islamic coping strategies while dealing with the challenges caused by the 2022-2023 COVID-19 outbreak.

The study adopts an exploratory survey approach. In the qualitative phase, the theme network analysis method was adopted to reach a conceptual model. In the quantitative phase, a questionnaire was prepared and the knowledgeable experts were asked to modify the model and other theme extracted in the research questions. That was all to evaluate the final model of Islamic coping style. In the qualitative phase, the main data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. Finally, the first stage was identified using the theme analysis method, applying the semi-structured interview technique, and the second stage was presented, according to the qualitative data extracted from the theme analysis. The theme network was also presented using MAXQDA software.

In this model, NFI for is equal to 0.98, NNFI is equal to 0.99 and IFI is equal to 0.99, where the index values are more than 0.9, the data can fit the model well.

According to the results, the validity of convergence and divergence of the educational package is confirmed; therefore, it can be of interest to healthcare centers.