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The Effect of Spiritual and Religious Group Psychotherapy on Suicidal Ideation in Depressed Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial

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Ebrahimi, Hossein, Kazemi, Abdul Hassan, Fallahi Khoshknab, Masoud, Modabber, Raheleh·2014·Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
DOI 10.5681/jcs.2014.014PMC PMC4134174
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Introduction: 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.Conclusion: 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.

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  • Group psychotherapies reduced suicidal ideation in 5 of 10 studies and suicide in one study, but none reported reducing nonfatal suicide attempts.

    “Group psychotherapies reduced suicidal ideation in 5/10 studies(100–109) and suicide in one,(100) but none reported reducing nonfatal suicide attempts (Table S3c).”

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    The Results and Conclusion report that spiritual-religious group psychotherapy reduced suicidal ideation in this trial of depressed patients. The paper does not establish the 5-of-10-study count or report a reduction in suicide deaths; it also cannot establish what all ten studies reported about nonfatal attempts. No page numbers were provided for these passages. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Ebrahimi, H., Kazemi, A. H., Fallahi Khoshknab, M., & Modabber, R.
Affiliations
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (IR)
ORCID
Ebrahimi, Hossein
Venue
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
Publisher
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
Published
2014
Volume
3
Issue
2
Pages
131-40
DOI
10.5681/jcs.2014.014
PMC
PMC4134174
OpenAlex
W1780207542
Cited by
15
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en
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  • Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Keywords
suicidal ideation, depression, suicide prevention, psychiatric inpatients

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