Introduction:Depression and anxiety are affecting factors on increasing blood glucose. Psychological interventions are appropriate and low-cost methods for controlling these factors. This study aimed to assess effectiveness of biofeedback- relaxation on depression, anxiety and blood glucose in type I diabetic patients.

Method: In this study which was quasi-experimental research by using pre-test and post-test with control group, sample group was selected among patients who referred to Kalar Health Center in Iraq's Kurdistan Region. Among existing records, 31 male and female patients (25-45 ages) were selected and randomly were assigned to control and experimental groups. The Beck Depression Inventory-II and Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were used to assess depression and anxiety and their HbA1c test results were recorded. After pre-test, experimental group for 8 weeks was treated with biofeedback-relaxation and control group received no intervention. Then both of them were tested by post-test. Descriptive statistics, analysis of variance and covariance analysis were used for data analysis.

Results: In the post-test, mean of depression of two groups was no significant difference with pre-test (0.805) but mean of state anxiety (p= 0.001), trait anxiety (p= 0.005) and blood glucose (p=0.000) in experimental group decreased significantly.

Conclusion: biofeedback-relaxation techniques reduces anxiety and blood glucose in patients with type I diabetes but has no effect on their depression.

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin-top:0cm;
mso-para-margin-right:0cm;
mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt;
mso-para-margin-left:0cm;
line-height:107%;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}