Kindness Matters: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mindful Self-Compassion Intervention Improves Depression, Distress, and HbA1c Among Patients With Diabetes

M. Friis, Anna; H. Johnson, Malcolm; Cutfield, Richard; S. Consedine, Nathan

doi:10.2337/dc16-0416

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Kindness Matters: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mindful Self-Compassion Intervention Improves Depression, Distress, and HbA1c Among Patients With Diabetes

Published in Diabetes Care • Jun 22, 2016

Authors:

Anna M. Friis

Malcolm H. Johnson

Richard Cutfield

Abstract

OBJECTIVE Mood difficulties are common among patients with diabetes and are linked to poor blood glucose control and increased complications. Evidence on psychological treatments that improve both mood and metabolic outcomes is limited. Greater self-compassion predicts better mental and physical hea...

Subject

Medicine

Randomized controlled trial

Self-compassion

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