Comparison of The Effectiveness of Hope Therapy and Spiritual Therapy on Quality of Life and Biological Indicators in Women with Diabetes

This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of hope therapy and spiritual therapy on quality of life, blood sugar, and blood pressure in middle-aged women with type 2 diabetes.

The present study was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest-follow-up design with a control group. The statistical population included all middle-aged women with type 2 diabetes referred to the Diabetes Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute in Tehran city in 2020 which 45 people were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned in two experimental groups and one control group (15 people in each group). The research instruments included the Diabetes Quality of Life Brief Clinical Inventory by Burroughs et al., (2004) and a blood test to measure fasting blood pressure and blood sugar. After 8 sessions of 90 minutes, once a week of hope therapy and spiritual therapy for the experimental groups, the data of the present study were analyzed using repeated-measures analysis of variance.

The results showed that spiritual therapy and hope therapy had an increasing effect on the quality of life (P=0.038).

One of the practical implications of the present study is the provision of psychological therapies for patients with type 2 diabetes. It is suggested that therapies such as hope and spirituality along with drug therapies be performed on patients with type 2 diabetes.