The Effectiveness of Hope Therapy on Resilience andPsychological Hardiness of Women With Type 2 Dia

Background: for public health and the quality of life, the prevention of chronic diseases is vitaland requires new prevention programs. this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of hopetherapy on resilience and psychological hardiness among women with type 2 diabetes referred toas diabetes association in tehran.materials & methods: this study used a quasi-experimental method and a pre-test-post-test witha control group in an experiment conducted. women with type 2 diabetes comprised the statisticalpopulation of this report. purposive sampling was used to choose 30 people from the medicalcenters of tehran’s regions 6, 3, and 15. this study’s data collection tools were two standardquestionnaires of the connor-davidson resilience scale (cd-risc) and kobasa (1988) hardinessquestionnaire. then they were assigned randomly to the two control (n=15), and experimental(n=15) groups. the experimental group received hope therapy training for 8 treatment sessions(90 minutes for each session). research data were analyzed using statistical software, version 21.results: the results indicated a significant difference between the two groups when pretesteffects are removed from the post-test results for resilience (p=0.001) and psychologicalhardiness (p=0.01). as a result, hope therapy training has a positive effect on women with type 2diabetes resilience and psychological hardiness (p=0.05).conclusion: according to a covariance analysis, hope therapy significantly increases theresilience and psychological hardiness of women with type 2 diabetes who were referred to adiabetes association in tehran.