نبذة مختصرة : Background and Aims: Diabetes Mellitus may affect the patient’s quality of life and sleep that lead to reduced satisfaction of life. Aim of this study was to improve quality of life and sleep along with satisfaction of life by giving physical therapy (pilates based on mat exercise) intervention. Material and Methods: Study design: experimental study, same subject design (pre- post). Sample size:30 individuals(13 males,17 females) with mean age 46.05±9.01, mean weight 70.48±12.11 and mean duration of diabetes mellitus 7.88±4.49.Intervention: patients were randomly allocated to two groups with 20 subjects in experimental group and 10 subjects in control group. Pilate based mat exercises were given in experimental group.Duration of treatment:20-30minutes.Number of session:3 session/week.Total duration:4 weeks.Outcomes measures: Final Qolid Questionnaire, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Satisfection with Life Scale.Statistics: descriptive statistics used to measure mean± standard deviation and inferential statistics related t test used to compare pre and post reading. Results: The result showed highly significant effect of exercise on quality of life and quality of sleep and significant result was found on satisfaction with life. Conclusion: Pilates based mat exercises shows positive effect on all parameters(quality of life, quality of sleep and satisfaction with life) of patients having type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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