Introduction: Diabetes is mainly associated withnegative psychological impacts on mental health of patients. Resilience training can potentiallydecrease such problems in patients. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of resilience training on psychological well-being of patients with type II diabetes.

Methodology: This quasi-experiment(with a pretest-posttest design) was conducted on30 samples,selected from the Iranian Diabetes Association, Tehran, Iran, andrandomly assigned to the control and test groups. Resilience training was performed for the test group in the form of nine sessions, followed by a post-test. Data collection tool included Ryff Scales of Psychological Well-being (RSPWB), and data analysis was performed using ANOVA.

Results: In this study, the ANOVA test revealed a significant difference in the pre-test scores of the study groups regarding psychological well-being and its subscales, such as self-government,self-acceptance, goal orientation, control over external factors,self-development andpositive relationship with others (P<0.0001).

Conclusion: According to the results of this study, resilience training had a significant impact on improved psychological well-being of patients with type IIdiabetes. It is recommended that resilience training be used to enhance the quality of life of patients, as well as their abilityto overcome problems in life.

Abstract

Introduction: Type II diabetes is a non- communicable disease with silent epidemiology, which has physical, psychological, and social consequences. Patients’ quality of life is affected by their level of health literacy, as well as their perception and interpretation of receiving care services at the right time. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the relationship of quality of life with health literacy in male patients with type II diabetes.

Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was of correlational design. The sample population consisted of all the men suffering from type 2 diabetes in Harsin, 170 of whom were selected through simple random sampling. The data collection tools were the Quality of life questionnaire (SF-36) and Health Literacy for Iranian Adults (HELIA). To analyze the data, Pearson product-moment correlation and multiple regression were performed.

Results: There was a significant positive relationship between health literacy and quality of life (P<0.01), that is, increased level of health literacy enhances quality of life from the physical, psychological, and social perspectives. In addition, quality of life and its aspects can predict 0.32 variance of accessibility, reading, perception, assessment, and decision-making of health literacy in patients with diabetes type II (P<0.01).

Conclusion: The findings emphasize on the fact that health literacy and its aspects are crucial for optimum quality of patients. Thus, mental health professionals should consider these two health elements.

Introduction: Diabetes should be considered as a family problem that affects all the members similar to other chronic diseases. Therefore, adjustment and marital satisfaction can be influenced by the disease. The aim of this study was to compare marital satisfaction and adjustment in diabetic and healthy women.

Materials and Methods: This causal-comparative study was conducted on diabetic (n=70) and healthy (n=70) women selected based on convenience sampling method in Tehran in 2017. For data collection, Enrich Marital Satisfaction Scale (1989) and Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment test (1959) were used in this study. The data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance and independent t-test in SPSS software (version 24).

Result: The obtained results of this study indicated that there was a significant difference between marital adjustment in diabetic and healthy women. Moreover, no significant difference was observed between marital satisfaction in diabetic and healthy women. Among the components of marital satisfaction, there was a significant difference only between personality issues in diabetic and healthy women. The healthy women had higher levels of personality issues and marital adjustment, compared to their diabetic counterparts.

Conclusion: In women with diabetes, the illness cannot cause less marital satisfaction than in healthy women. Furthermore, the difference in marital adjustment between diabetic and healthy women can be ascribed to the fact that chronic diseases are considered as disastrous events in life that can affect the family interaction patterns