The Effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Therapy on Emotional Regulation, Quality of Life, and Pain Perception in Type 2 Diabetes Patients
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Objective: Given the increasing prevalence of diabetes, researchers in the field of health and well-being have been emphasizing empirical investigations. The aim of the current research was to examine the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy on emotion regulation, quality of life, and pain perception in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Methods and Materials: This semi-experimental study employed a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The study population consisted of type 2 diabetes patients affiliated with the International Diabetes Prevention and Control Foundation in Mashhad in June 2022. The sample included 30 individuals who were selected by simple random sampling and randomly assigned to two groups: 15 in the intervention group and 15 in the control group through random allocation. The intervention group received Greenberg and Goldman (2019) emotion-focused therapy over eight sessions, each lasting 90 minutes, once a week. Data were collected using utilizing the Emotion Control Questionnaire (1997), the World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire, and the McGill Pain Perception Questionnaire (1997) and analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance in SPSS version 26.
Findings: The results indicated that EFT improved emotion control (P=0.000, F=32.669), quality of life (P=0.000, F=20.360), and pain perception (P=0.000, F=94.358).
Conclusion: it can be concluded that emotion-focused therapy leads to increased emotion control, improved quality of life, and reduced pain perception in patients with type 2 diabetes.
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