The Faculty of Nursing at Baghdad University discussed the master’s thesis tagged )Effect of Coping Strategies on Severity of Symptoms in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (for the student Zaher Atta Naeem Al-Taee.
The aim of the study is to assess the coping strategies of-patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and the effect of coping strategies on severity of symptoms with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
The letter also included the thesis to The results showed that high percent (45.3%) of study samples were moderate level regarding severity of Irritable bowel syndrome, Overall assessment of coping strategies for the current sample of the study was High. The results showed significant overall linear regression model between the coping strategies and severity of symptoms with Irritable Bowel Syndrome indicated by F value (8.145 ) and p value (0.005).Also results indicated that independent variable which is coping strategies was significant predicator of Irritable Bowel Syndrome severity indicated by t value (2.854) with p value significant (0.005).
The most important recommendations reached by the study: establishing special unit in hospital to teach the patient how to uses the coping strategies and what are the measures to relief their symptoms , and the estimate that the researcher got privilege.