The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Therapy on Adherence of Doctor's Directions in the Treatment of Diabetic Patients

The purpose of this study was to investigate The effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy on adherence of doctor's directions of diabetic patients.

The method of this research was a Quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest design with control group. The population of the study included all diabetic patients, who were members of Diabetic Association in the city of Mashhad in 2018. Wich 30 of them were placed using purposive sampling method and were matching assigned to experimental group (n=15) and control group (n=15). Participants of the experimental group received 8-sessions of mindfulness-based therapy and the control group only used the common treatment. To collect the data adherence of doctor's directions questionnaires (Hayes & et al, 1994) were used. Data were analyzed using covariance method.

The results showed that adherence of doctor's directions of patients participating in the experimental group significantly increased compared to the control group (P<0/05).

Therefore, it can be concluded that mindfulness-based therapy increases the adherence of doctor's directions of diabetic patients.