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- Title
THE EFFECT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OF INDIVIDUALS WITH CHRONIC MENTAL ILLNESS ON COPING STYLES WITH STRESS.
- Authors
KARA, MEHMET; LOK, NESLIHAN; LOK, SEFA
- Abstract
Objective. In this study, the physical activity levels of individuals with chronic mental illness will be determined, and the effect of physical activity levels on their methods to coping with stress will be examined. Methods. This study was planned as a descriptive relational study. The study was conducted with 94 psychiatric patients who applied to the psychiatry outpatient clinic of a University hospital in the Selçuklu district of Konya. In the collection of data; Personal information form prepared by the researchers, questioning socio-demographic characteristics, International Physical Activity Questionnaire and the Scale of Coping with Stress was used. To evaluate the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and physical activity, t-test and one-way anaova tests were used with independent groups. Pearson correlation analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between the coping styles scale and physical activity. Results. The mean age of the participants was 33.54±12.02, 58.1% were female, 41.9% were male, 36.2% were university graduates, 61% were single, 73.3% were It was determined that 40 of them did not work in any job, 40% of them had an income of less than 1000 TL, 45.7% of them had the disease for less than 5 years, 39% of them had bipolar diagnosis and 53.3% of them perceived their health as moderate. The distribution of the physical activity levels of the participants and their stress coping styles scale mean score are presented in Table 1. It was determined that 81.6% of the participants were in the physically inactive (inactive) group, while 18.1% were in the group with low physical activity levels. The mean physical activity score of the participants was found to be 483.35±111.05. Stress coping styles scale Self-Confident Approach sub-dimension mean score 18.83±4.67, Helpless Approach sub-dimension mean 19.74±4.67, submissive approach mean score 12.53±3.45, optimistic approach score mean score of 12.68±3.32 and Seeking Social Support sub-dimension was found to be 9.14±2.88. Conclusions. According to the results of the study, women, married people, employees, those with chronic mental illness for 10 years or more, and those with a personality disorder diagnosis were included in the risk group in terms of physical activity. It was also observed that there is a relationship between physical activity and self-confident approach to coping with stress, submissive approach and seeking social support.
- Subjects
KONYA (Turkey); STRESS management; PEOPLE with mental illness; PHYSICAL activity; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); MARRIED women; MARRIED people
- Publication
Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education & Sport/Science, Movement & Health, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
2285-777X
- Publication type
Article