Effectiveness of Motivational Interview on Health Promoting Lifestyle and Health Hardiness in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Diabetic patients faced with many problems in the field of health promoting lifestyle and health hardiness. Therefore, present research was conducted with the aim of effectiveness of motivational interview on health promoting lifestyle and health hardiness in patients with type 2 diabetes.

This study was semi-experimental with pretest and posttest design with control group. The research population was type 2 diabetes patients had files in Diabetes Association of Zahedan city in the spring of 2021 year. After reviewing the inclusion criteria, number of 30 people were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly replaced in two equal groups. The experimental group was trained 8 sessions of 70 minutes with the motivational interview method and the control group was placed on a waiting list for training. The research instruments were the health promoting lifestyles profile II (Walker et al., 1995) and revised health hardiness inventory (Gebhardt et al., 2001). Data were analyzed by tests of chi-square and multivariate analysis of covariance in SPSS-19 software.

The findings showed that the experimental and control groups did not significantly different in terms of gender, age, education and marital status (P>0.05). Also, the motivational interview method in comparison with the control group led to increase the health promoting lifestyle and health hardiness in patients with type 2 diabetes (P<0.001).

According to results of this study, health experts and therapists can use from motivational interview method to improve health related traits especially increasing life expectancy, health promoting lifestyle and health hardiness.