comparing the effectiveness of mobile social networkbased mindfulness intervention with acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness therapy on selfmanagement and glycated haemoglobin level among patients with type 2 diabetes

Background and aims: the present study aimed to compare mobile social networkbased mindfulness training, along with acceptance and commitment therapy (act) and mindfulness therapy on selfmanagement and glycated haemoglobin (hba1c) level in patients with type 2 diabetes. materials and methods: the research employed a pretestposttest control group quasiexperimental design with a threemonth followup. among type 2 diabetic patients who referred to diabetes treatment centers in isfahan in the spring of 2018, 80 of them were purposefully selected based on inclusion criteria and then randomly assigned to three groups of the social networkbased mindfulness intervention, act, and mindfulness training, along with a control group. then, the summaries of diabetes selfcare activities questionnaire and glycated haemoglobin test were used to measure the dependent variables. the mindfulness interventions were conducted in the form of attendance in the training sessions. in addition, virtual networkbased training and act were presented during eight 45minute and 120minute sessions, respectively. finally, the data were analyzed using repeated measures of anova with bonferroni posthoc test by spss software. results: the findings indicated that in the selfmanagement variable, there was a significant difference between social networkbased mindfulness (posttest mean=30.59, followup mean=30.88, p=0.004) and act (posttest mean=32.7, followup mean=32.29, p=0.001) with the control group. further, a significant difference was observed between act and mindfulness therapy regarding selfmanagement (p=0.04). in the hba1c level, there was a significant difference only between social networkbased mindfulness (mean in posttest and followup=7.44and 7.39, respectively, p=0.02) and the control group. conclusion: according to the findings of the present study, mobile social networksbased mindfulness interventions, along with act, are considered as effective treatments for diabetic patients to increase selfmanagement while reducinghba1c.