Investigating the Effect of Self-Care Group Training on the Level of Resilience of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Self-care training is one of the important components of diabetes control; if this training in done in groups it can bring upon appropriate behaviors and targeted choices in a patient. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of self-care training plan on the resilience of patients with type 2 diabetes. This was a semi-experimental interventional study of two groups in diabetes centers of Ahvaz in 2016–2017. Subjects were divided into two groups of 60 in control and case groups in this study. The data collection method was based on a researcher made questionnaire, Conner-Davidson Resilience Scale Questionnaire. For all participants when entering the study, educational and support needs were assessed by interview before the intervention, then self-care training sessions were held in groups for each of the case groups for 4 weeks and one session of 1 hour weekly. Topics discussed in these sessions were held in the form of 4 dimensions that included physiological, social, emotional and spiritual dimensions. In this study, no training intervention was performed for the control group. Data were analyzed using SPSS.16 software. The results of this study showed that research units did not have a significant difference in terms of demographic characteristics, but the level of resilience that was not significantly different before intervention in the two case and control groups (P=0.856), had a significant difference after intervention in the two case and control groups (P<0.001). Results showed that self-care training in groups is effective in increasing the level of patient's resilience, therefore, it seems that attempting to increase self-care training plans for all age groups with chronic diseases and especially diabetes is essential.