Contributions of Health Psychology to Support Patients With Diabetes Through Online Tools

The aim of this detailed description is to present the research protocol of a controlled randomized trial to evaluate the impact of an e-program based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for people living with diabetes in France on the quality of life and the psychological flexibility. The recruitment of participants is done through a call for participation launched by the French Federation of Diabetics, during which patients have access to a Patient Information Notice (PIN) presenting the project. This PIN enable diabetic patients to find out about the different possible groups of the study and the planned randomization. In this way, they will know that they can belong to three different groups : 1) The "Slow ACT" intervention group, which will follow an intervention based on acceptance and commitment therapy (duration 6 weeks); 2) The "Slow Diabetes" control group, which will follow a Slow Diabète Summer program (duration 5 weeks - launched by the French Federation of Diabetics); 3) The "No program" control group, which will not follow either of the two interventions, and will be able to compare the data from the two groups presented above. Finally, 15 of the people in the ACT intervention group were voluntarily recruited to a Single Case protocol. This took place over 14 weeks, with 14 measures (psychological flexibility and quality of life). The content of the e-program ACT in which not all patients have participated is sent to all of the participants of the study at the end of it, for reasons of ethics and fairness.