Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Group Therapy with the Islamic Approach to Reduce Anxiety and Depression in Type II Diabetes People in Yazd

Hakimian, Mohammad Mehdi; Sedrpoushan, Najmeh; Abolhassani Shahreza, Farid

doi:10.18502/ijdo.v15i4.14558

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Hakimian M M, Sedrpoushan N, Abolhassani Shahreza F. Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Group Therapy with the Islamic Approach to Reduce Anxiety and Depression in Type II Diabetes People in Yazd. IJDO 2023; 15 (4) :256-260
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Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Group Therapy with the Islamic Approach to Reduce Anxiety and Depression in Type II Diabetes People in Yazd

Mohammad Mehdi Hakimian

, Najmeh Sedrpoushan ^*

, Farid Abolhassani Shahreza

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humnities, Islamic Azad University, Yazd Branch,Yazd, Iran.

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Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based group therapy (ACT) with the Islamic approach to reduce anxiety and depression in patients with type II diabetes referent to the Yazd Diabetes Research Center.
Materials and Methods: The study method was the semi experimental. Forty diabetic patients were simple randomly divided into two equal experimental and control groups. The study was done in the patients referent to the Yazd diabetes center (n= 5000), using a purposeful sampling method. So, all of the patients did completed the beck anxiety (BAI) and depression (BDI-II) questionnaire for diabetic patients. Then, the experimental group received ACT with an Islamic approach every other week during 16 weeks and 120 minutes for each time, and the control group continued their normal plan. The population of both groups performed the anxiety (BAI) and depression (BDI-II) questionnaire again after performing the instructional plan.
Results: In this research, the covariance analysis test was used to analyze the results. The findings of the research showed that ACT with an Islamic approach effects on the anxiety (P: 0.001) and depression (P: 0.001) in type II diabetes people.
Conclusion: The results showed that ACT with Islamic approach is effective on reducing anxiety rate and depression of type 2 diabetic people. Scores of post-test confirmed the effect of treatment method ACT with Islamic approach on reducing of anxiety and depression rate.

Keywords: Type II diabetes, Acceptance and commitment based therapy, Islamic approach, Anxiety, Depression

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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2023/03/8 | Accepted: 2023/11/10 | Published: 2023/12/19

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