The Role of Irrational Beliefs, Mindfulness and Perceived Social Support in Predicting the Social Health of Diabetic Patients

The World Health Organization stressed on the importance of social health as well as physical health, so social health has become the common concern of sociologists and social planners in each community. The present study was conducted to determine the role of irrational beliefs, mindfulness and perceived social support in predicting the social health in diabetic patients.

This study was a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical population of the study included all type 2 diabetes patients referred to the diabetes clinic of Imam Khomeini Hospital of Ardabil in 2019. One hundred twnety patients were selected by convenience sampling method. For data collection, the irrational beliefs scale, mindfulness scale, multidimensional scale of perceived social support and social health scale were used. Data analysis was made using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression and using SPSS version 16 software.

According to the results a significant relationship was observed between irrational beliefs (r=-0.54, p<0.05) and mindfulness (r=0.51, p<0.05) with social health in diabetic patients. Also, a significant relationship was observed between social support perceived by the family (r=0.64, p<0.05), friends (r=0.62, p<0.05) and others (r=0.59, p<0.05) with social health in diabetic patients. The results of multiple regression indicated that irrational beliefs, mindfulness and perceived social support predict a total of 0.60 in social health among the diabetic patients (p<0.05).

According to the results of this study, irrational beliefs, mindfulness and perceived social support are effective in improving the social health in patients with type 2 diabetes patients.