The purpose of the study:The effect of coping skills training and religious coping on the quality of life of parents of children with chronic kidney failure aged 2 to 18 years; study design: Quasi-experimental study before and after the intervention group and the control group at the hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran (Mofid, Ali Asghar, Bahrami and Medical Center),randomly (50 parents of children admitted to hospitals Ali Asghar and Mofid as parents in the intervention group and 50 admitted to hospitals Children's Medical Center and Bahrami elected as the control group). Inclusion criteria:3 months past their child is diagnosed kidney failure
; Health care provider (father or mother); older than 18 years; the ability to speak, read and write in Farsi; Lack of any mental disorder; neurological or other chronic diseases; Lack of Chronic renal failure in the family members; residing in Tehran and Alborz
Exclusion criteria: the stressful event (divorce, financial crisis, death of a parent members); Participation in the similar educational courses; Sample: two groups of 50 parents in the intervention group and the control group
intervention group: teaching coping skills and religious coping orally (group of 5 to 8 members) 5 sessions of 45 minutes with the theme: first session: chronic kidney disease, the second and third: coping skills, the fourth and fifth: religious coping strategies
control group: only teaching hospital routine (described disease, treatment options, how to take care of the catheter or fistula and diet) does not receive the intervention. Intervention time: Immediately after sampling, the primary outcome variable: quality of life for parents