introduction: One of disorders that severely affect the health and therefore quality of life, chronic diseases such as diabetes. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment to increasing the quality of life of military personnel have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: This study was a clinical trial quasi-experimental design with pre-test, post-test, track and with two experimental groups and the control group in the hospital Hajar Army has been done. Data collection included a researcher made questionnaire about demographic, clinical characteristics, and quality of life questionnaire (SF = 36) at 8 general health, physical functioning, role limitations due to physical and emotional, bodily pain, social functioning, fatigue or is the vitality and mental health. 8 sessions acceptance and commitment therapy (2 meetings 6 sessions) were presented to the participants in the experimental group and the control group during the study was not conducted any therapeutic intervention. Through analysis of variance with repeated measures data using the software SPSS-22 were analyzed.

Results: our findings showed that during eight sessions of intervention and three- month follow-up ، scores of the experimental group had a significand increase than the control group(p<0.05).

Conclusion: The results showed that acceptance and commitment therapy can improve the quality of life of military men with type 2 diabetes ¬Bashd staff.
Keywords: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), quality of life, staff, military men, type 2 diabetes.