| Stress is an integral part of human life and stressful events can cause physical and
mental illnesses and also lead to decrease in work efficiency. Due to the effectiveness
of the coping skills training in mental health, this study aimed to achieve the effect of
coping skills training in mental health and hardiness of emergency medicine assistant
with an emphasis on gender, age and educational year. In this study as a before and
after training, 52 emergency medicine assistants in the three educational years (the
first, second and third year of residency) were examined in terms of hardiness and
impact of coping skills training on this situation. The proposed questionnaire contains
demographic information and Kobasa hardiness questionnaire that was completed by
each participant. Assistants after completing the questionnaire underwent a coping
skills training and after that the Kobasa hardiness questionnaire was presented to each
participant for the second time and the results were compared. In all residents before
and after training the mean commitment score was 0.23 ± 0.01 and 0.24 ± 0.01 (P =
0.64), the challenge score was 0.52 ± 0.016 and 0.52 ± 0.014 (P = 0.81), control score
was 0.29 ± 0.01 0.31 ± 0.02 (P = 0.38) and total score was 35.42 ± 1.29 and 36.18 ±
1.4 (P = 0.79), respectively. In the first year residents before and after the training
period, the mean commitment score was 0.19 ± 0.01 and 0.29 ± 0.04 (P = 0.03) and
total score was of 31.48 ± 1.68 and 39.005 ± 3.4 (P = 0.04), respectively. In single
residents before and after the training period, he mean commitment score was 0.3 ±
0.05 and 0.48 ± 1.03 (P = 0.02) and total score was 36.38 ± 5.43 and 48.02 ± 4.71 (P
= 0.013), respectively. Participants were evaluated in terms of age and gender impact
on the training course that showed no significant difference in terms of listed
variables and (P> 0.05). According to the results, coping skills training in the second
and third year residents had a low impact on their hardiness, but early holding the
course in the first year of residency, lead to increasing their hardiness, greater
commitment to life and work and ready to accept changes in life and work as an
exciting challenge. Also married residents were less efficient in training courses than
single residents. |