“…Self-efficacy and coping with stress in chronic diseases affect the course of the disease (Ceyhan & Unsal, 2018;Knowles et al, 2020;Ozdemir & Tasci, 2013;Tielemans et al, 2015). International studies on these issues related to chronic diseases observed that there was a relationship between patients' self-efficacies and their coping strategies in many disease groups such as stroke, cancer, diabetes mellitus, respiratory system diseases and joint/connective tissue diseases (Benka et al, 2014;Calık Var et al, 2016;Ceyhan & Unsal, 2018;Geng et al, 2018;Knowles et al, 2020;Koehler et al, 2009;Saconi et al, 2020;Tielemans et al, 2015;Yang et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2008). There was a strong relationship between coping and self-efficacy of patients with cancer and stroke Chirico, Serpentini, et al, 2017;Geng et al, 2018;Koehler et al, 2009;Tielemans et al, 2015).…”