Effect of hope therapy on the mood status of patients with diabetes

Abstract

Background:Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease which imposes high costs on patients and society and results in complications in patients. One of these complications includes issues related to mood. Thus, the present study was conducted with the aim to determine the effect of hope therapy on the mood status of patients with DM.Materials and Methods:This quasi-experimental study was performed with two groups in three stages in the summer of 2015 on 38 individuals. The study population consisted of all individuals with DM who referred to and had a medical record at Shahid Asghar Shabani Clinic (Isfahan, Iran) affiliated with the social security organization. From among the 350 individuals with medical records at the clinic, 38 who had the inclusion criteria were selected through simple random sampling. Participants were randomly assigned to control (n = 19) and experimental (n = 19) groups. The Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale was completed by both groups before, after, and 1 month after the intervention.Results:There was a significant difference in the mean scores of depression in the intervention group before (F = 19.48, p = 0.001), immediately after (t = 3.30, p = 0.002), and 1 month after the intervention (t = 3.09, p = 0.004), whereas there was no significant difference in the mean scores of depression before, immediately after, and 1 month after the intervention in the control group.Conclusions:The obtained results showed that hope therapy can reduce depression in patients with DM.

The Effect of Group Hope Therapy on Happiness of Patients with Type II Diabetes Who Referred To A Diabetic Clinic at Southeast of Iran

“…Results of the study conducted by Ghazavi et al is consistent with those of present study and they showed that hope therapy in patients with diabetes increased hope in intervention group compared to control group [7]. In addition, the study conducted by Khoshnoud et al indicated that education of life skills increased significantly happiness and hope of patients with type II diabetes [19].…”

“…Reduction of happiness in diabetic patients may be one of disease effects resulting from stressful nature of disease. As a result, hope therapy will help such patients to cope with this disease [7].…”

“…In current century, the main challenge of caring such patients is care of general health, quality of life, enjoyable life and promotion of their mental health [5,6]. Researches indicated that socio-mental problems, irritability, anger, depression and anxiety in diabetic patients are higher than normal individuals [7]. Therefore, patients with diabetes have to change their life styles basically.…”

“…There are many non-medicinal methods to help happiness and adaptation of patients with diabetes. One of such methods is hope therapy [7]. Hope is one of the most basic concepts in positive psychology.…”

Effectiveness of Positive Thinking Skills on Life Expectancy and Self-Concept in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

“…with the patient's disease (Ghazavi et al, 2015) and living with MS requires continuous adaptation to cope with the unpredictable symptoms (Anderson, Turner & Clyne, 2016). Hope is an important resource for people with MS to cope with multiple lesions of this disease.…”