Background: The aim of this project is to investigate the relation between disease perception and the coping methods in confrontation with the stress of being mother of a type1 diabetic child. Methods: Statistical populations under investigation were all those mothers with type1 diabetic child Who were referred to Kermanshah Taleghani Hospital Clinic in 1392 (during summer).According to simple randomized sampling considering The Morgan method 103 mothers were selected To gather data Illness Perception Questionnaire and Coping Inventory for stressful situation were used Research design was on correlation. Statistical analyses were done through significance test o Pearson correlation coefficient and step by step regression. Results: Results has shown a significant correlation between emotional centered confrontation approach and approach of inevitable confrontation with disease perception. There is also a significant relation between emotional centered confrontation approach and the consequences of self control of disease nature, anxiety, disease cognition and emotional responses. There is significant relation between task specific centered approach and sequences, self control, disease nature, anxiety, disease cognition and emotional responses. There is significant relation between inevitable confrontation approach and sequences, self control, disease nature, anxiety and disease cognition. Also results have shown that variables including task oriented confrontation approach, emotional centered and inevitable one are good predictors of mothers with type one diabetic ‘disease perception. Conclusion: In the light of the above we can conclude that stress confrontation methods are effective on disease perception of mothers with type one diabetic child and more perception of mothers would lead to application of more proper stress confrontation methods.
