Impact of Counseling Program on Depression, Anxiety, Stress and Spiritual Intelligence, in Pregnant Women

Recent studies show that spirituality and spiritual intelligence in pregnant women is associated with their mental reactions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of the Spiritual counseling on pregnant women's spiritual intelligence and common mental reactions during pregnancy.
In this quasi-experimental study 80 pregnant women were selected via randomly sampling among pregnant women that had been screened and then randomly assigned into two intervention (n=40) and control (n=40) groups. The intervention group were divided into four groups of ten persons and then got spiritual counselingthrough 8 sessions and control group got only routine Care. Data collected by using of demographic questionnaire, DASS-21 questionnaire, King spiritual intelligence scale. Both groups were followed Immediately after and two months later.
Before the intervention, there was no significant difference in mean score of depression, anxiety, stress, spiritual intelligence and its components scores between two groups (p>0.05). Immediately after and two month later, The results showed a significant difference between the two groups on mean score of depression , anxiety, stress, Spiritual intelligence and its components (p0.05). The mean score of spiritual intelligence and its components significantly increased over time (before, immediately after and two month later), in the intervention group (p Spiritual counseling efficient on enhancing of Spiritual intelligence and controlling the depression, anxiety and stress in pregnant women.