Effectiveness of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training in Trait and State Anxiety Symptoms in Type II Diabetics Patients

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is one of the cognitive-behavioral therapeutic methods based on skill training, which have drawn so much attention in recent years. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of an intervention based on DBT in reducing trait and state anxiety level of patients with type II diabetes. The population study was all the patients with type II diabetes who attended private clinic in Sari among them 20 were permitted. An experimental pretest-posttest design control group was used. Participants of the experimental group received 12 therapeutic sections in 6 weeks. Each section lasted 2 hours where skills based on DBT were taught based on therapeutic manual (mindfulness, emotion regulation, tolerance and interpersonal efficacy). Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y) was used to measure anxiety in pretest and posttest. Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance. Results showed that modifying the preset effect, there was a a statistically significant difference between two groups in the posttest Consequently, the intervention based on DBT is effective in the reduction of state-trait anxiety in patients with type II diabetes.