The Effectiveness of Hope Therapy on Employing Positive Coping with Stress Strategies in Wives of Addicted Men

Drug addiction as an infelicitous social phenomenon has many detrimental effects including stress on the substance user and his family and specifically his wife. What makes health behavior at risk is the assessment of stress and ways of coping with it. The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of hope therapy on employ positive coping with stress strategies in wives of addicted men. The present study is a quasi-experimental with design of pre-test and post- test with control group and follow-up. This study was performed on 30 wives of addicted men in Shiraz city based on available sampling and randomly included in two groups of experiment (n=15) and control (n=15). Coping with Stress Inventory (Carver, Schier & Weintrap, 1989) was used as measurement instrument. Data were analyzed using t-test and analysis of covariance by SPSS 17 software.The results showed that the hope therapy can effect on the use of positive coping with stress at a level of significance less than 0/001. These results were stable during follow up period.According to the results of present research, can use of hope therapy as one ways to help wives of addicted men for employing the positive coping strategies for their stress.