Effectiveness of trust in God Group Training on Elderly men Depression

Goal: The aim of the present study is to examine the effect of education of trusting in God’s faith on depression in the elderly men. The method quasi-experimental study and research design was pretest-post test with control group. The population was the elderly men living in nursing homes in Tehran province. Between the existing hospice, hospice charity Kahrizak elderly were randomly selected. GDS 15-question Form was administered on the 50 of elderly men and the 20 cases whose depression scale scores were 8 and above 8 Selected randomly in both test and control groups of 10. In this study,eight training sessions were held about trusting in God for the experimental group. One week after completion of the group training, the depression, GDS 15 question test on both test and control groups was administrated. Results of tests examined using one-way analysis of covariance (Nkva). Data analysis was performed using SPSS 16. It was shown that the educational intervention on the subject is significant (P <0/05). According to the study,trust in God is effective in reducing depression and increasing the quality of life for elderly people.