The Effectiveness of Compassion Focused Training on Life Expectancy, Health Promoting Lifestyle and Health Hardiness in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

The aim of this research was determine the effectiveness of compassion focused training on life expectancy, health promoting lifestyle and health hardiness in patients with type 2 diabetes.

This study was semi-experimental with pretest and posttest design with a control group. The research population was type 2 diabetes patients had files in Diabetes Association of Zahedan city in the spring of 2021 year. After reviewing the inclusion criteria, number of 30 people were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly replaced into two equal groups. The experimental group was trained 8 sessions of 70 minutes with the compassion focused training method and the control group was placed on a waiting list for training. The research instruments were the life expectancy questionnaire (Snyder et al., 1991), health promoting lifestyles profile II (Walker et al., 1995) and revised health hardiness inventory (Gebhardt et al., 2001). Data were analyzed by tests of chi-square and multivariate analysis of covariance in SPSS-19 software.

The findings showed that the experimental and control groups did not significantly different in terms of gender, age, education and marital status (P>0.05). Also, the compassion focused training method led to increase the life expectancy (F=403.86, P<0.001), health promoting lifestyle (F=93.90, P<0.001) and health hardiness (F=89.20, P<0.001) in patients with type 2 diabetes (P<0.001).

The results indicated the effectiveness of compassion focused training on life expectancy, health promoting lifestyle and health hardiness in patients with type 2 diabetes. Therefore, for improving the psychological traits can be used from compassion focused training along with other training methods.