Related Experiment Video
Updated: Oct 1, 2025
Author Spotlight: Integrating Tai Chi with Mindfulness Training to Achieve an Effective Mind-Body Exercise
Published on: July 14, 2023
The patterns of acceptance, mindfulness, and values for Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a web-based
Junichi Saito1, Hiroaki Kumano2,3
1Comprehensive Research Organization, Waseda University, 2-579-15, Mikajima, Tokorozawa, Saitama, 359-1192, Japan. tekuteke@aoni.waseda.jp.
Background:
The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model of human functioning uses the behavioral processes of acceptance, mindfulness, and values, which together compose psychological flexibility, the ability to contact the present moment more fully as a conscious human being and to either change or persist when doing so serves valued ends. To increase the effectiveness of interventions in the medical treatment of diabetes, it is important to examine the effects on patients with type 2 diabetes of promoting the active component patterns of ACT. This study explores these points.
Methods:
Questionnaires were administered to type 2 diabetes patients who were registered in the database of a research service provider, and data was collected and analyzed from a total of 211 patients (mean age ± SD was 58.84 years old ±10.25, 14.69% were females).
Results:
Cluster analysis yielded four clusters: "Average" (average levels of acceptance, mindfulness, and values), "Flexibility" (high levels of acceptance, mindfulness, and values), "Values/low" (average levels of acceptance and mindfulness, and a low level of values), "Values/high" (average levels of acceptance and mindfulness and a high level of values). Patients in the "Flexibility" and "Values/high" clusters had significantly fewer depressive symptoms than the other clusters. However, members of the "Values/high" cluster demonstrated significantly higher glycated hemoglobin levels than those in the other clusters.
Conclusions:
The results above indicate that each part of the ACT model is necessary for managing diabetes treatment while improving quality of life. The importance of values is emphasized in ACT for diabetes patients, but we argue, given our results, that acceptance and mindfulness are very important for Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes. This study is limited to Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes. In further research, the subject population must be expanded to people from other areas and of different racial backgrounds.
More Related Videos
07:22Glycemic Impact on Knee Osteoarthritis Symptoms on Physical, Radiographic, and Inflammatory Markers among Individuals Aged 50 and Over with Diabetes
Published on: March 7, 2025
07:13Digital Home-Monitoring of Patients after Kidney Transplantation: The MACCS Platform
Published on: April 12, 2021
Related Concept Videos
01:29Assessment of the Gastrointestinal System II: Health Perception Pattern
Health Perception Patterns
Health perception patterns offer valuable insights into a patient's lifestyle habits and how they may impact their GI health. These patterns include:
01:22Diabetes Mellitus: Overview and Type I Subtype
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. As a result, the body is unable to produce sufficient insulin, and individuals with...
01:22Diabetes Mellitus: Type 2 and Gestational
01:15Diabetes: Management and Pharmacotherapy
Insulin remains the cornerstone of treatment for most patients with type 1 and many...
01:21Peripheral Arterial Disease II: Clinical Manifestations and Diagnostic Evaluation
01:15Diabetes: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Complications