Effects of brief psychotherapy on the psychic dimension of psychosocial adaptation to diabetes

This research has as main purpose the study of the brief psychotherapy’s effects on psychosocial dimension of psychological adaptation to diabetes mellitus. The style of psychosocial adaptation of patients with diabetes mellitus insulin-dependent was detected by ATT19 "Scale of self-assessment" of psychological adaptation to diabetes prepared by Welch, Dunn and Beeney. The main objective of this study was to demonstrate how the psychic dimension of optimal psychosocial adaptation to the diabetic pathology affects the somatic aspect through better compliance resulting in improved lifestyle, more self-monitoring and control, resulting in a reduction of glycosylated hemoglobin. The theoretical assumption is a bio-psycho-social one with a multi-componential vision (P. Porcelli, 2009). Two homogeneous groups were compared, the experimental group found in Abruzzo and the control group in Puglia, through an experimental design with a random choice of subjects, two doses at different moments in time and handling of psychosocial adaptation condition.