Study of teaching coping skills in providing students' mental health

Introduction: Since many of coping skills can be learned and various studies show that teaching coping skills and use of them play an important role in providing individuals' mental health, the main aim of this study is to achieve to effects of teaching coping skills on providing mental health of medicine science of Ardabil university students. Materials and Methods: because of subject nature and aims of the study, the study method was experimental research method. The type of design was before after test design with control group. Statistical society of the present study comprised all boy and girl students accepting at 1384 and studying at medicine sciences of Ardabil University in 1384-85. Also, this study was conducted only on the individuals who gained 23 or more in GHQ-28 questionnaire (which evaluates four subscales of anxiety, depression, somatic symptoms, and disorder of social function), (n=112). At the next stage the needed sample (i.e. 80 girls and boy students {40 individuals in control group and 40 individuals in experimental group}) was selected randomly and distributed in two mentioned groups, randomly. Then, coping skills were taught to experimental group for 4 weeks (two sessions in a week) and no variable was exposed to control group during this period. At the end, 10 individuals from experimental group and 8 individuals from control group were omitted from responding to the questions of the research because of various reasons (such as not participate in the sessions); finally the achieved data from 62 individuals was analyzed by descriptive statistics methods (frequently and percentage) as well as inferential statistics methods (independent t test, mean unit sample test, and Pearson correlation). Findings: the results showed that teaching coping skills affects on decreasing mental disorders symptoms especially somatization of symptoms and anxiety of students suspected to the mental disorder (R