Abstract:

Background and Aim:  There is growing evidence that the relationship between coping ways with stress and coronary heart disease. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the relation between coping ways with stress and systolic and diastolic blood pressure in coronary heart disease.

Materials and Methods: Survey population, all patients were with CHD who referred to Tehran Shahid Rajaie Heart Hospital. Forty-four patients with CHD admitted to different parts of hospital were selected from among eligible patients. In this study the coping ways questionnaire Lazarus and Folkman was used and set of systolic and diastolic blood pressure (Omron). For statistical analysis, research data was used. Indicators and descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis with stepwise method were used.

Results: The results showed there are positive and significant correlation between emotional focused coping ways and systolic and diastolic blood pressure and also negative and significant correlation between problem focused coping ways and systolic and diastolic blood pressure and also coefficient of avoiding coping way according to the t-test indicate that among 8 of coping ways only this variable with 99% confidence can be predicted to the changes related to systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

Conclusion: Results showed that the increased use of emotional focused coping ways lead to increases in levels of systolic and diastolic blood pressure and increased in the use of problem focused coping ways lead to decrease in levels of systolic and diastolic blood pressure.