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Objective: Diabetes is a chronic disease that influences mental and physical health. Regarding the importance of diabetic patients' psychological status, this research studied the effect of group positive psychotherapy on life expectancy and general health of type 2 diabetic patients. Materials and Methods: This clinical-trial study was done on 30 type 2 diabetic patients in Kermanshah diabetes research center. The experimental and control groups were randomly selected. Data were gathered before and 10 weeks after intervention. Demographic, life expectancy and general health (GHQ) questionnaires were used for gathering data. SPSS-16 and Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S), Chisquare and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) were used for analyzing data. Results: Results showed that group positive psychotherapy caused significant enhancement on life expectancy in intervention group than control group (P-value: 0.001). Although positive psychotherapy caused significant reduction on anxiety disorder and somatic symptoms in mental health, there was no significant difference of general health between two groups (P-value: 0.347). Conclusion: Positive psychotherapy was effective on increasing diabetic patients' life expectancy. So this efficient psychotherapy can be used for increasing type 2 diabetic patients' life quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Diabetes is now known as one of the chronic diseases that besides body have negative effects on the psychological status of patients. The present study aimed to assess the physical and mental attributes of patients to evaluate and compare life expectancy and mental health among diabetic patients with normal ones. Materials and Methods: This was an analytic cross-sectional study, that was done on 91 adults about 30 to 60 years old in Kermanshah that 51 had type 2 diabetic patients and 40 was normal. The Sampling method of this research was convenience. Life Expectancy Inventory (LEI-33) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) were used to collect information. SPSS-16, descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and T-test were used for analyzing data. Results: Analyzing data showed a negative significant correlation between life expectancy and general health among adults (P<0.01). T-test results showed that life expectancy and general health status in non-patients was better than type 2 diabetic patients that this difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). Conclusion: The results of this study showed that type 2 diabetic patients have too much psychological pressure exposure, which reduces their hope to live. Hence of psychotherapy and pharmacological interventions is needed to improve the psychological care as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]