The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on perceived stress in diabetic elderly

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on perceived stress in the elderly with diabetes The research design of the present study was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this research was all the elderly diabetics who visited the health centers of Rafsanjan and had symptoms of high stress. In this research, using the available sampling method based on random selection, people were placed in two experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). The F-value of the perceived stress in the post-test is (42.406), which is significant at the 0.001 level, and this shows that there is a significant difference between the two groups in the amount of perceived stress. The effect size of 0.61 also shows that this difference is large and significant in society. The F statistic of the perceived stress pre-test is also (5.819), which is significant at the 0.05 level. According to the findings, it can be said that the mean of the experimental group in perceived stress is significantly lower than the mean of the control group. As a result, the ACT significantly affects the amount of stress in diabetic elderly.