Cronbach's alpha for support seeking coping ranged from.91 .933.
Men with a predominantly avoiding coping style sought care less often from a GP or medcial specialist, whereas men with a support seeking coping style visited the GP more often.
This study provides little information about peer norms, personality factors of sensation seeking, coping mechanisms, or social context factors that might constitute a possible third-variable explanation of alcohol consumption and risky sexual behavior among young people; this area has been examined in previous studies on young people and general populations [ 25, 27, 43, 46].
In addition, women with a more active coping style and men with a more support seeking coping style made more frequent visits.
A survey of 38 children aged 8 10 years and their parents found that participation in activities increased significantly with increased asthma knowledge and the use of avoidance coping and support-seeking coping behaviours [ 83].
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However, some differences were noted in the health seeking and coping strategies.
It contains 9 subscales: guarding, resting, asking for assistance, relaxation, task persistence, exercise/stretch, seeking support, coping self-statements, and medication use [ 47].
(Probe: Health seeking behavior, coping, types of treatment (modern, traditional, spiritual), Source of social support etc. Ethical approval was obtained from the National Institute of Medical Research and locally from KCMU College Research and Ethics Committee.
Further, an unusually large proportion of women preferred an information seeking (monitoring) coping style, which has been shown to be predictive of psycho-physiologic or primary insomnia in Western women [ 11].
In addition, individuals may themselves vary in their information seeking and coping styles, in some cases acting as blunters, while in others as monitors, and this may be due to contextual factors such as the person's understanding of the threat posed to them by the situation [ 47], and the type of stressor encountered [ 48].
