title: The Relation of Religious Attitudes and Behaviours with Depression in Boarding Quran Course Students.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Boarding Quran courses are religious institutions where course attendees spend large part of the year. Depression is an ever-increasing health problem. So, it is worth to study on the effects of religion concept and religious belief and behaviours' that religion concept brings, on depression. The main purpose of this study, is to analyse the effect of religious attitudes and behaviours on depression in Quran course / hafiz students.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study is a cross sectional, case-control survey research. Boarding Quran courses and high schools were visited in Samsun city. A total of 956 participants enrolled between June 2015 and December 2015 were included into study from Samsun city of Turkey. Volunteers, 13 years and over ones without any psychiatric disorders were included in the study. Religious attitude-behaviour inventory and Beck's depression inventory were used in the study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Median point of case group attitude scale was 49, control group's was 57 and difference among both has a statistical meaning (p<0.001). Beck's depression score average of case group is 12.93±9.33, its control group's average is 13.74±11.14 and difference between them is not important. Median score of both groups are 11. When scores of attitude and depression scales compared with each other in terms of demographic parameters, there is a difference among group, gender, age and education parameters (p<0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It was seen that religious attitudes and behaviours can be protective for boarding Quran course students but it cannot be enough by itself.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Asarcik Meydan Family Healthcare Center, Samsun, Turkey, dr.onurozturk@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Onur
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ozturk
authors.forename: Alper M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Celik
authors.forename: Eylem Isik
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Uyar
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003469:Culture; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007514:Islam / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey; D055815:Young Adult