Patients from hospital B showed greater improvement in coping with stress, and patients from hospital A were more successful in increasing their use of self-help.
Improvement of coping skills may form an important target for intervention that may contribute to better clinical and functional outcomes in patients with psychotic symptoms.
CBT users had a higher score of contemplation than non-users, reflecting improvement in coping with IBD resulting from CBT use.
Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves [ 50] is a further method of assessing responsiveness but the absence of a criterion relating to whether patients had an important improvement in coping limited the scope for ROC analysis in this study.
Thus, several secondary outcomes are included, which have the potential to capture various effects in addition to the main outcome of COPM, such as improvement in coping and mental health.
It is possible that the marked improvement in coping during the initial months after completing DI-EC reflects the relief and sense of accomplishment that the patient may feel after undergoing a difficult experience.
In healthy elderly, cognitive interventions lead to fewer negative emotional reactions towards cognitive functioning [ 3, 12, 13], improvement in coping with reported cognitive failures [ 12, 13], and better objective cognitive functioning [ 13, 14].
The findings suggest that, based on current indicators, the north and west of Europe are generally better placed to cope with combined climate and socio-economic impacts than the south and east and that there is scope for improvement in coping capacity in all areas, particularly in terms of stocks of social, financial and manufactured capital.
Research suggests that patient education is feasible and valuable in terms of improvements in quality of life, function, well-being and improved coping [ 9- 13].
Research suggests that patient education is feasible and valuable for achieving improvements in quality of life, in function, well-being and improved coping.
The theoretical model utilised in this program achieved its outcomes through improvements in coping self-efficacy and planning.
