Coping strategies in patients with brain neoplasms: clinical psychological differences and adaptive potential.

Coping behavior is an important component of psychological adaptation in patients with brain neoplasms, whose illness may involve neurological deficits, cognitive impairment, prognostic uncertainty, and threats to autonomy and personal identity. However, evidence on coping patterns across different types of brain tumors and their relationships with quality of life, affective state, and post-traumatic growth remains limited. To examine the characteristics of coping behavior in patients with brain neoplasms and to assess the associations between specific coping strategies and quality of life, af