It is suggested that health interventions take into account the resilience and psychological variables that may be beneficial to improve coping with the disease.
24– 26 An understanding of the health and welfare systems may help navigation and thus improve coping and reduce stress, benefitting the children involved.
Early regular communication and decision making may improve access to timely information, alleviate anxiety, reduce uncertainty, and improve coping strategies.
33 Additionally, prior research reports that family intervention may decrease the frequency of hospitalization, and enhance social functioning in people with schizophrenia, and improve coping strategies and social resources for caregivers.
During the inpatient program, patients were confronted with their lack of coping, and they learned to improve coping strategies.
Mechanisms may include support received or provided, improved coping with stressful life events, reduced depression, and positive emotions leading to health-promoting physiological effects of decreased chronic sympatho-adrenal activation, improved immune function, and less chronic inflammation [ 10- 13].
Improved coping (catastrophizing and ability to decrease pain) and reduced depression may act as important predictors for pain relief and improved function.
The Yokohama Strategy especially focused on improving coping mechanisms in order to better cope with and recover from disasters' impacts.
Participants who under-utilized coping via problem-solving or seeking support or over-utilized escape-avoidance experienced improved coping.
Finally, while membership improves coping, there is no systematic information on how group membership and/or better coping improves self-care, management and health outcomes.
