For example, "use opiates for relieving tension or anxiety" was also a significant predictor (p <.05) if the predictor "use opiate for pleasure or to get high" was removed, which supports the assumption that BZD use could be the result of coping with stress and anxiety during methadone maintenance.
From this perspective, it has been shown that caregivers of older cancer patients are at increased risk for depression, which might result as a consequence of the burden of providing care, but also as a result of inadequate coping mechanisms [ 29].
Most participants were able to describe lessons that they have learned as a result of dealing and coping with a terminal illness.
Some personality and mood features can predispose to FMS, in addition to these features revealing themselves as a result of stress for coping with pain [ 24, 25].
The findings of this study emphasise what Ahamad and Khondker (2010) noted that seasonal food insecurity is often transitory as a result of seasonal fluctuations of coping strategies, which may be an outcome of socioeconomic circumstances and variation in climatic factors.
As a result of this strict definition of coping, only subjects who are aware of the symptom and concomitant distress are able to reflect, in terms of coping, on their symptoms and distress experience.
These findings correspond to social gradients in health, in which those with lower socioeconomic circumstances have worse health [ 59] and may be a result of, and a way of coping with, harsh economic and social conditions.
The association of better psychoemotional HRQoL with longer stroke duration may be a result of response shift and coping strategies, which are developed over time.
Moreover, women who face difficult decisions with respect to, for instance, genetic testing, may cope differently as a result of their dispositional decision-coping patterns [ 16].
Their plight is a result of the scramble to cope quickly with the immigration consequences of the quake's destruction and death toll.
