Effectiveness of Transdiagnostic Treatment on Rumination and Cognitive Avoidance in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

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1 Ph.D. in Public Psychology, Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor of Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Transdiagnostic treatment is one of the new therapies that the effect of it on many psychological variables has been established. The purpose of the current study was to examine the effectiveness of Transdiagnostic Treatment on Rumination and Cognitive Avoidance in patients with Type 2 Diabetes. The research method was experimental (pretest, posttest with control group). In this research, 32 patients with type 2 diabetes in age range 40 to 50 year randomly assigned in experimental (8 males and 8 females) and control (8 males and 8 females) groups. The Ruminative Responses scale and Cognitive Avoidance Questionnaire were used for collecting the data. Trans diagnostic Treatment was trained for experimental group in 12 one-hour sessions. Data were analyzed with Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). Results indicated that the Transdiagnostic treatment has been effective on decreasing the Rumination and decreasing thought suppression, avoidance of threatening stimuli and transformation of images into thought cognitive (three factor of Cognitive Avoidance) in patients with Type 2 Diabetes. According to results, Transdiagnostic treatment was suggested for decreasing psychological problems of patients with Type 2 Diabetes spatially Rumination and Cognitive Avoidance.

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