The effectiveness of Transdiagnostic treatment on rumination and cognitive avoidance in patients with Diabetes

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 diabetes 2. 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 male and 8 female) and control (8 male and 8 female) groups. . The Ruminative Responses (Nolen-Hoeksema & Morrow, 1991)cognitive avoidance questionnaire( Sexton & Dugas,2004)were used for collecting the data.Transdiagnostic 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 thoughtcognitive(three factor of cognitive avoidance) in patients with diabetes 2 (p<0.01).According to results, Transdiagnostic treatment was suggested for decreasing psychological problems of patients with type 2 diabetes espiatially rumination and cognitive avoidance