Analysis on correlation between coping style and social support of close contacts with tuberculosis

doi:10.3969/j.issn.10096493.2015.08.009

Abstract：Objective:To investigate the level of social support and coping styles of close contacts with tuberculo‐sis ,to analyze the correlation between them and compare the status quo of social support and coping style of close contacts with tuberculosis with different demographic characteristics .Methods:A total of 1 143 cases of close contacts with tuberculosis family were investigated by using trait coping style questionnaire and social sup‐port rating scale .Results:The positive coping style score of 1 .75% close contacts with tuberculosis was at a low level ,negative coping style score was at a high level in 4 .90% close contacts of tuberculosis ,98% close con‐tacts’ total score of subjective support and social support was at high level ,utilization of support of all close contacts of tuberculosis was at the low level .Objective support and utilization degree of support of close con‐tacts with tuberculosis were positively related to total score of social support and positive coping score ;subjec‐tive support ,objective support ,the utilization degree of support and the total score of social support were nega‐tively related to negative coping score .Multiple linear stepwise regression analysis showed that family condition was the main influencing factors .Conclusion:Coping style is closely related to social support .Few close contacts with tuberculosis use negative coping style ,and social support utilization degree is poor .the family of economic difficulties is the need to focus groups .