2003 Volume 26 Issue 5 Pages 5_19-5_29
The purpose of this study was to evaluate relationships among depression coping, depression, and the Quality of Life (QOL) based on a stress-coping model.
The participants were 239 patients with mental disorders (158 in-patients and 81out-patients). Results revealed that positive coping behaviors affected depression unfavorably, that negative coping behaviors affected depression favorably, and that depression affected the QOL unfavorably. This means that depression coping has a direct effect on depression and an indirect effect on the QOL.
The contribution rate for depression was 28% in out-patients, and was 18% in in-patients, while the contribution rate for the QOL was 36% in out-patients and was 29% in in-patients. These results suggested that, in order to raise the QOL in mental disorders, nurses must provide nursing intervention to raise patient depression coping ability.
