Effectiveness of Self-Healing (the Healing Codes) Training on Emotional Well-Being, Psychological Hardiness, and Recovery in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Diabetes is one of the most common diseases caused by metabolic disorders with devastating effects. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of self-healing (the healing codes) training on emotional well-being, psychological hardiness, and recovery in patients with type 2 diabetes.

The research method was quasi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test, and follow-up design and a control group. The study population comprised all women with type 2 diabetes who referred to the health centers of Isfahan. Thirty patients were selected based on inclusion and exclusion criteria and randomly divided into experimental (n=15) and control (n=15) groups. The research instruments included Keys and Magyar-Mae Emotional Well-Being Questionnaire (2003) and Kiamarsi Psychological Hardiness Questionnaire (1998) which were completed by the participants in three stages: pre-test, post-test, and follow-up. Patients' blood sugar was measured and recorded by a specialist in three stages. The experimental group underwent fourteen sessions (60-minute sessions per week) of self-healing training and the control group was waiting for intervention. The repeated measures ANOVA was used for analyzing the data by using SPSS software (version 24).

Self-healing training effectively increased emotional well-being and psychological hardiness in patients with type 2 diabetes (p< 0.01). In terms of improving social well-being and the disease process, there was no significant difference between the experimental and control groups in the pre-test stage.

Self-healing can be used as a new approach in positive psychology to increase the emotional well-being and psychological hardiness in patients with type 2 diabetes.