فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Coronavirus (COVID‑19) a worldwide pandemic has significantly affectedlife of people around the globe. It has also caused various psychological issues among publicsuch as uncertainty, fear, anxiety, and of course stress. Globalization has facilitated it and hasadded greater complexity to the containment of infection leading to urgent call for public healthchallenge. Consequently, a multilevel stress coping adjustment process is going on. Hence, it isimperative to explore how people are affected psychologically and how they are coping with it.People are adopting different strategies for coping up from this challenging situation. In this sense,the present study intended to: explore which coping strategies were of relevance for people foradjusting in COVID‑19 crises and were sociodemographic factors influencing the coping strategies.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The research is descriptive study. For the present study, a sampleof 475 participants was asked for coping strategies used by them using valid and reliable scales.RESULTS: Results revealed that positive attitude and trust in God were the most used adaptivecoping strategies and sociodemographic variables were playing a significant role in adaptive copingstrategies.CONCLUSION: Hence, understanding and identification of coping strategies and their relationshipwith demographic variables can help health professionals to direct interventions to control stressorsrelated to the pandemics.