Efficacy of the God mentioning program in reducing anxiety

Despite significant advances in mental health and techniques for treating mental disorders, Human Being today suffers from an unknown Deep anxiety. This study aims to investigate the efficacy of a kind of religious interventions to reduce anxiety, using the Using the God mentioning and prayers in Islamic texts.This was an experimental study, using a pretest, intervention and posttest, as well as a control group. The population included of all male prisoners in the central prison of Qom. For this purpose, among the prisoners who, had the highest norm anxiety score, 34 people were selected randomly in experimental and contro groupsl, selected and were randomly assigned to two groups of experimental and control. Both groups were evaluated by Cattell's Anxiety Scale. Afterwards, experimental group had 7 training sessions, and then performed the treatment protocol (God mentioning based on islamic resource) in 40 days of continuous practice, and the control group received no intervention. The content validity of this protocol was verified by the evaluation of 12 religious experts and psychologists.The analysis of covariance showed that the average of anxiety scores in the experimental group compared to the control group in the post test stage decreased significantly.