en عمومى General پژوهشي Research <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="line-height:2;"><strong>Background</strong>: Infertility is recognized as a stressful and critical experience worldwide and across cultures and disrupts individual, marital, family, and social stability. Religion serves as a source of support in dealing with health-related problems. This study investigates the relationship between religious coping mechanisms and health-promoting lifestyle (HPL) among Iranian infertile women.<br> <strong>Methods</strong>: A cross-sectional correlational study was conducted on 177 infertile women referring to the Sarem Sub-specialized Infertility Treatment and Research Center in Tehran City, Iran, 2019. The subjects were recruited by continuous sampling. The data in this study were collected using a demographic information form, the Iranian religious coping scale (IRCS), and the health-promoting lifestyle profile-II (HPLP-II). Statistical analyses, including the independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson correlation coefficient, were performed using SPSS software, version 22. The significance level was set at P<0.05.<br> <strong>Results</strong>: The highest mean was related to active religious coping (7.86&plusmn;2.39), while passive religious coping (2.89&plusmn;1.76) and negative feelings towards God (3.95&plusmn;2.07) had the lowest mean scores. The Mean&plusmn;SD score of health-promoting lifestyle was 128.34&plusmn;13.46; the score range was 52-208, lower than the median score of the scale. A weak but significant inverse relationship was observed between negative feelings towards God and HPL (r=-0.19; P=0.013) and its three subscales: Physical activity (r=-0.18; P=0.019), nutrition (r=-0.21; P=0.011), and interpersonal relationships (r=-0.21; P=0.01). Also, a weak yet statistically significant inverse association was observed between passive religious coping and interpersonal relations (r=-0.18; P=0.029).<br> <strong>Conclusion</strong>: Considering that the mean HPL score of infertile women was lower than the median score of the scale, community-oriented education and care programs are recommended to improve HPL in infertile women. Teaching and strengthening positive/active religious coping strategies to improve HPL are also advised.</span><br> <br> <strong>Corresponding author:&nbsp;</strong>Seyedeh Batool Hasanpoor-Azghady, Email: hasanpoorbatool@yahoo.com<br> <u>You can also search for this author in:</u>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%28Seyedeh+Batool+Hasanpoor-Azghady%5BAuthor%5D%29+AND+%28Iran+University+of+Medical+Sciences%5BAffiliation%5D%29">PubMed</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=o89jzVAAAAAJ">Google Scholar</a><br> <span style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></span></span></span></div> Religious beliefs, Coping behavior, Health promotion, Lifestyle, Female infertility 255 266 http://jccnc.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-159-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Amin Gheysari amin.gheysari1992@gmail.com 100319475328460010000 100319475328460010000 No Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Marhamat Farahaninia farahaninia.m@iums.ac.ir 100319475328460010001 100319475328460010001 No Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Seyedeh Batool Hasanpoor-Azghady hasanpoorbatool@yahoo.com 100319475328460010002 100319475328460010002 Yes Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.