Introduction: The enhancement of proficiency in any organization especially in health and treatment centers being more exposed to job stress needs to care more about human labor force. Therefore, according to the importance of the efforts of health care providers (Behvarzan) in improving the health system of the country, this article is provided to study the effects of training the skills of coping with stress on the health care providers’ performance.

Materials & methods: Regarding the purpose and functional conclusion, the current study is from intervening semi- experimental surveys haring two groups of testing and controlling. The study cases for this research include all the health care providers in health centers in Ilam township during 2014 being 60 people and for some limitations the number was carried out through census and randomly divided into two 30-member groups of testing and controlling. Then, the testing group was given coping with stress instructions. To get desired results in this study, Pierson testing and variance analyzing methods were used.

Findings: The results of this research showed that there is a contrary and meaningful relation between job stress and task performance. (p ≤ 0/05). It is also shown that training ways to cope with stress did not affect ability elements, authority and the role in health workers’ performance. (p ≤ 0/05) but it affected elements such as support, motivation, reaction and environment in health care providers. (p ≤ 0/01)

Discussion & Conclusions: According to the fact considering the effects of training the skills of coping with stress over the job performance among health care providers, it is suggested that training workshops targeting coping with stress should frequently be held for all the staff of health centers as well as health care providers.