Investigation of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Training on Emotion Regulation Strategies and Depression of Pediatric Type I Diabetes

Objective: this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion regulation training on depression and emotion regulation strategies of pediatric type i diabetes. materials and methods: the study used a quasi-experimental approach that included pre-and post-test assessments to compare the experimental and control groups. the university of medical sciences in shiraz, provided services to a total of 30 patients. patients were chosen using purposive sampling and were randomly allocated to either the experimental group (n=15) or the control group (n=15) pediatric types i diabetes. the beck depression inventory (bdi-ii) and the gross and john emotion regulation questionnaire were used to collecting data. the experimental group got eight training sessions on depression and emotional regulation (once a week for two months), whereas the control group got no instruction. the data was analyzed using an analysis of covariance by spss.23. results: the mean (±sd) of age in the experimental group and control groups were determined to be 14.60 (±0.88) and 14.46 (±073) years, respectively. according to the results, emotion regulation training had a significant effect in decreasing depression and increasing the adaptive emotional regulation strategies in students (p< 0.001). conclusion: emotion regulation training might be a useful strategy for improving emotion regulation difficulties in patients with type i diabetes, according to the findings of this investigation, although the efficacy of emotion regulation training was not approved in this investigation due to a lack of intervention factors.