Introduction
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Employees are exposed to a range of physical and psychosocial risks at their workplaces according to occupationStress management is a poorly defined conceptThe conceptualisation of coping in the context of stress has for many years revolved around the work of Lazarus and Folkman. Their Transactional Model of Stress and Coping (TMSC) illustrates how stress and coping is a process based on changing cognitive appraisals of a given situation and one’s resourcesThere is evidence to suggest that educational health promotion programmes are effective interventions for stress management in the workplace. For example, a rational-emotive health education intervention used to coach technical college teachers’ in Nigeria, significantly decreased the stress of the intervention group compared to a control groupTo our knowledge, there remains a need to provide supportive stress interventions beyond the teaching profession, including employees working in large industrial power plants. To our knowledge, no study has assessed the effect of a transactional model-based education programme on stress management and coping skills of industrial workers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a health promotion educational intervention based on the TMSC on stress management and coping skills among industrial workers in Iran.