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Some chronic diseases like cancer, and its side effects such as depression, are considered as stressful life events. But, these reactions are not the real results of the mentioned disease and depend on the pressure compensatory factors, like social support, and the performance of confront methods with stress, such as religious coping. The purpose of this research was to investigate the relation of depression, religious coping, and social support in the women with breast cancer. In our research, 240 patients with breast cancer were selected randomly (without considering of the disease stage) and were assisted with self report questionnaires (Beck depression test, religious coping, and social support). The correlation between religious coping and depression was significant and negative (-0.61; P < 0.01). Also, the correlation between depression and social support was significant and negative (-0.84; P < 0.01). But the correlation between social support and religious coping was significant and positive (0.62; P < 0.001). The results showed that as the score of religious coping and social support decrease, an increase in the depression score is observed and vice versa. Corresponding to the Beck depression test, 34.2% of the patients had moderate and severe depression. This research showed the effective role of social support and religious coping in decreasing depression score in the women with breast cancer which should be considered in therapeutic counseling services. Incidentally, the high rate of depression prevalence in these patients should be highlighted for the people in charged.

Physical diseases and human psychological structure are closely interlinked and their effects on each other have been the subject of discussion for scientists for many years. In psychiatric classification, diabetes mellitus is categorized in psychosomatic diseases and the effect of behavior patterns and mental stresses on development of the diseases are dicussed in the above-mentaned category. The aim of this research was to study the relationship between type A behavior pattern and type 1 and 2 diabetes. The sample consisted of 150 people, 50 were type 1 diabetics, 50 type 2 and 50 formed our control group. The Jenkins questionnaire was used to determine type A & B behaviors. In statistical analysis type A behavior pattern was seen more in type 1 diabetics (74%) which in comparison with the control group and type 2 diabetetics (54%) was significant (p<0.05). These findings demonstrate the role of behavior patterns and psychologic factors on the clinical course of diabetes and stress the importance of psychologic intervention in the management of diabetics.