The impact of psychodrama on the resilience of suicide-prone soldiers

The present study is aimed at investigating the effect of psychodrama on the resilience of suicide-prone soldiers in a military base in Isfahan, Iran.
This is a quasi-experimental study with pretest, post-test and control group. The research population includes all the suicide-prone soldiers of a military base in Isfahan, Iran. A sample of 20 soldiers was selected using the availability sampling method and randomly divided into experimental and control groups (with ten soldiers in either group). The Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideations (BSSI) and the ConnorDavidson Resilience Scale were administered to both groups as pretests. The experimental group was exposed to 10 two-hour sessions of psychodrama techniques and the control group received no intervention. Following the intervention on the experimental group, both groups were evaluated using the previously-mentioned instruments. The covariance analysis was employed for reduction purposes and elimination of the impact of concurrent variable (pretest and demographics).
It was revealed that application of psychodrama techniques impacts on the soldiers’ degree of disposition towards suicidal thought and resilience. It reduced soldiers’ disposition towards suicide and increased their resilience.
To explain this finding, we can say that the privilege of this approach is its practicality; every individual poses his/her problem live, thinks about its solutions and continues to be engaged until the final solution is discovered.