effectiveness of compassion- acceptance and commitment combined therapy with cognitive-behavioral therapy on interpersonal forgiveness in female patients with type ii diabetes

Objective: diabetes is chronic and debilitating disease that affects all aspects of a person's life. the purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of compassion focused (cft)-acceptance commitment (act) combined therapy with cognitive-behavioral therapy (cbt), on interpersonal forgiveness in women with type ii diabetes. materials and methods: this was of quasi- experimental study on three groups (cft-act combined therapy, a cognitivebehavioral and a control group) and three stages (pre-test, post- test and follow up). among diabetic women population, 47 patients were selected purposefully and randomly assigned to three groups. tow experimental groups (cft- act & cbt) received 120 minutes’ sessions of cft- act and cb for10 weeks. the control group did not receive any treatment .data were analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance using spss-24 software. results: the results showed that the scores of experimental group participants in the post test of cft-act and cbt improved significantly compared to the control group in all three components of forgiveness, including reconnection and revenge control, resentment control and realistic understanding (p-value: 0/000). the experimental group of the combined therapeutic model was more effective than the cbt group in the two components of resentment control and realistic understanding. conclusion: based on the findings, the combination therapy of cft- act and cbt can be used to promote reconnection and revenge control, resentment control and realistic understanding in diabetic patients.