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This descriptive research was carried out to the purpose of evaluation of the coping with stress methods of mothers who have disabled children and living in city centers of Zonguldak. The study population consisted of 210 mothers of disabled children attending the three rehabilitation centers in the city center of Zonguldak. During the research 178 mothers (84.8%) were reached. As data collection tools, sociodemographic variables prepared by researchers, Descriptive Information Form containing thoughts about having disabled child and Scale of the Ways to Cope with Stress were used. Numbers, percentages, Kruskall-Wallis variance analysis, Student t test, MannWhitney U test were used to evaluate the data. About every disabled child, 62. 4 % (n=111) of the mothers stated that they were troubled with point of view of the society, 52.8 % (n=94) of them stated that they had difficulty in communicating with their social surroundings, 40.4 % (n=72) of them stated that they felt guilty for each child's disability, 83.1 % (n=148) of them stated that they had difficulty in the child's treatment and 43.8 % (n=78) of them stated that they were not supported by their social surroundings. The average scores of Coping Ways of Stres Scale in mothers are as follows; self-confident approach 23.4±4.4, helpless approach 18.8±5.5, submissive attitudes 13.6±4.1, optimistic attitudes 15.4±2.9 and seeking social support 11.1±2.6. The families with disabled children need to be examined closely psychologically and privided psychosocial support when it is needed

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