ompare the Effectiveness of P atience - Based Treatment Plan with Cognitive - Beh avior Therapy (CBT) on Type 2 Diabetic Patients

According to the importance of patience in mental health, the purpose of this study was to compare theeffectiveness of patience - based treatment plan with Cognitive - Behavior Thera py (CBT) on cognitive flexibility, psycho - social adjustment with disease, health locus of control and adherence to treatmentamong type 2 diabetic patients .

The research design is a quasi - experimental test with pre - test and post - t est. The statistical population of this study was all type 2 diabetic patients referring to Shahid Motahari clinic of Shiraz - Iran from whom 60 patients were selected by available sampling method and randomly divided into two experimental and a control gro up (20 patients in an experimental group receiving CBT, 20 patients in an experimental group receiving patience - based treatment plan and 20 patients in a control group) .

The results showed that the mean of the two experimental groups' scores in c ognitive flexibility, psycho - social adjustment with disease, internal health locus of control, and enehchdrh at acheaehda were more than those of the control group. This finding was indicative of the effectiveness of patience - based treatment and CBT. Mor eover, the mean of the two experimental groups' scores in the powerful others health locus of control and the chance health locus of control were lower than those of the control group. This finding showed that patience - based treatment plan and CBT were ef fective in reducing external health locus of control. However, the mean of the experimental group receiving patience - based treatment plan in God health locus of control was more than that of the CBT and control groups and it indicated that receiving patie nce - based treatment plan increased the scores of God health locus of control among diabetic patients . Ethical Considerations:

 related to the study was observed .

According to the results showing the effectiveness of patien ce - based treatment plan, applying this treatment plan to promote mental health and adherence to treatment among diabetic patients is suggested .