Table 3 Coping strategies adopted by patients in dealing with their diseases
Main Theme | Sub-theme |
|---|---|
Main strategy adopted | EMOTION-ORIENTED |
❖ Religious activities | |
✓ Prayer | |
✓ Faith, | |
✓ fasting, | |
✓ Going to church | |
✓ Sing and dance, | |
✓ Read bible | |
❖ Creative art | |
✓ Listening to radio (gospel music) | |
✓ watching television | |
TASK-ORIENTED | |
❖ Engaging in social activities | |
✓ Visiting friends, | |
✓ Chatting with friends, | |
✓ Playing games, | |
✓ Playing football with friends; | |
✓ Going out to stand at the road side, | |
✓ Going around the town (roaming); | |
✓ Doing exercise | |
AVOIDANCE-ORIENTED | |
❖ Intrinsic Adaptation | |
✓ Try and make my mind not to be thinking of the conditions and my problems | |
✓ Take the condition as other conditions | |
Source of coping strategy | Self |
✓ A personal decision not to worry or think about the condition nor the challenges | |
Family and friends | |
✓ Spouse, parents, children | |
✓ Close friends (lecturer | |
Health professionals | |
✓ Nurses advise | |
✓ Doctors | |
Religious means | |
✓ Bible, | |
✓ pastors | |
Effectiveness of coping mechanism (Level of success with strategy) | ✓ Improvement in the condition |
✓ prevented the deterioration (stable Bp status) | |
✓ become resilient (don’t think of the condition, less anxious and relaxed) |