The Effect of Spiritual Self-Care Training on the Severity of Insomnia of Diabetic Adolescents

Adolescence is one of the sensitive and important stages of human development, and the presence of diabetes in adolescents has many complications, one of which is insomnia. Spiritual care, especially for teenagers, along with routine care, can affect and improve their quality of life by dealing with stress.

The present study is a randomized clinical trial study, which was carried out by a simple random allocation method of pre-test and post-test type on 66 diabetic adolescents (33 in the test group, 33 in the control group) aged 12 to 20 years, referring to urban comprehensive health service centers and Village of Qaimshahr in 1401 after obtaining consent and ensuring the confidentiality of the received information. The data collection tool was the ISI Insomnia Severity Questionnaire. The test group was taught White's spiritual self-care during 6 sessions of 30 to 45 minutes. At the end, the data was entered into spss22 software and then the information was analyzed by descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.

The average intensity of insomnia in the test group before the intervention was 19.91±1.4 and in the control group was 20.88±2.57 and after the intervention in the test group it was 18.45±2.18 and in the control group reached 20.45±1.34, a significant difference was seen. With analysis of variance by removing the effect of the pre-test, a significant difference was observed.

Based on the results of the study in diabetic adolescents, spiritual self-care training improves the severity of insomnia. It is suggested that this study be followed up in the long term.