Prediction of post traumatic growth based on social support, coping styles and optimism in patients with Brain Tumor

Introduction: Brain tumorr is a deadly disease but patients can have positive growthpsychologically. It is important to find factors that lead psychological growth of patients.Therefore, this study was aimed to predict the post traumatic growth based on socialsupport, coping styles and optimism in patients with brain tumor.Methods: In this correlational and descriptive study, the statistical population included allpatients with brain tumor who referred to the hospitals of Bandar Abbas in 2015, 200patients were selected through convenience sampling method. Posttraumatic GrowthInventory (PTGI), Social Support Inventory (SSA), Ways of Coping Questionnaire(WOCQ) and Life Orientation Test (LOT) were used to gather data. For data analysis,Pearson correlation and stepwise multivariate regression analyses were used to determinethe relationship between variables and examine the role of predictor variables and theircontribution in predicting the criterion variable. Data were analyzed using SPSS 22.Results: Pearson correlation results showed that there was a significant correlationbetween social support, problem-based and emotion-focused coping strategies with posttraumaticgrowth (P<0.05). But there wasn t a significant relationship between optimismand post-traumatic growth. The results of stepwise regression analysis also showed thatsocial support and problem-based coping strategies explained 30.3% of posttraumaticgrowth variance together, but emotion-focused coping strategies and optimism cannotpredict posttraumatic growth.Conclusion: According to the findings it can be suggested that training and interventionon improving patients social support and coping strategies are effective way on increasingposttraumatic growth and improving the psychological state.

Keywords:

Post Traumatic Growth , Social Support , Optimism , Brain tumor