Predicting Corona Anxiety based on Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies, Health Hardiness and Death Anxiety in Diabetic Patients

Diabetes is one of the main causes of death in the world; so that every day the number of patients with it is increasing and one of the risk groups in Corona disease are people with diabetes. From anxiety related factors can be noted to cognitive emotion regulation strategies, health hardiness and death anxiety, therefore present research aimed to predicting Corona anxiety based on cognitive emotion regulation strategies, health hardiness and death anxiety in diabetic patients.

This study was cross-sectional from type of correlation. The research population was diabetic patients of Ahvaz city in 2020 year which from them 400 people selected by purposive sampling method. In this research to collected data used from the tools of Corona anxiety, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, health hardiness and death anxiety. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with enter model in SPSS-19 software.

The findings showed that positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and health hardiness had a negative and significant relationship with Corona anxiety in diabetic patients and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies and death anxiety had a positive and significant relationship with their Corona anxiety. Also, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, health hardiness and death anxiety could explain 38/8 percent of Corona anxiety changes in diabetic patients, which the share of death anxiety was higher than other variables (P<0/01).

Regarded to the results, for reduce Corona anxiety of diabetic patients can designed programs to increase their positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and health hardiness and decrease their negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies and death anxiety and implemented through electronic and virtual workshop.