title: The effect of spiritual and religious group psychotherapy on suicidal ideation in depressed patients: a randomized clinical trial.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Suicide is a great economical, social and public health problem. It is prevalent worldwide and has a lot of negative effects on individuals, families and society. Depression is often prelude to Suicide. An important part of the treatment of the mentally ill patients is spiritual-religious psychotherapy which should be done after physical treatment. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of spiritual and religious group psychotherapy on suicidal ideation in depressed patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  51 depressed patients with suicidal ideation from Razi hospital (Tabriz, Iran) participated in this clinical trial. To collect Data questionnaire was used which included demographic and Beck Suicide Scale Ideation. Experimental group participated in 10 sessions of group psychotherapy. Each section lasted 1 hour. Two weeks after the last section post test was done. Statistical software SPSS ver 13 was used for data analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  RESULTS of independent t-test revealed no difference between two groups in terms of suicidal ideation before intervention but after study there is a statistical difference. Also the results of ANCOVA test showed a significant relationship between spiritual group therapy and decrease in suicidal ideation, so that this intervention can make 57% of variance in suicidal ideation of experimental group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Regarding positive effect of spiritual and religious group psychotherapy on decreasing suicidal ideation of depressed patients, we suggest this intervention to be held in Psychiatric Wards and also more study on depression and other psychiatric patients with greater sample size would be helpful.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Hossein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ebrahimi
authors.affiliation: Departments of Immunology & Parasitology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Abdul Hassan
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Kazemi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Nursing & Geropsychiatric Nursing, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences (USWR), Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Masoud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fallahi Khoshknab
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Raheleh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Modabber
keywords: Depression; Psychotherapy; Spiritual therapies; Suicidal ideation