Investigating the effect of Salat (Muslim prayer) on mental health in the results of clinical studies: A mini review

Research shows that there is a relationship between religion and spirituality with social behavior and mental health. Among the different religions, Muslims have the largest number in the world. Muslims pray five times a day.

The purpose of this study was to review previous findings on the effect of Salat (Muslim prayer) on the mental and psychological health of people.

More than 50 articles were reviewed and finally the most relevant articles were separated and analyzed.

The results indicate that there is a direct relationship between Salat and increasing the desire to live, hope, endurance of hardship, feeling happy and happiness, hope for recovery in patients. Also, prayer has an inverse relationship with anxiety and depression, despair, despair, dissatisfaction with life, discomfort with illness and problems.

According to these findings, doctors and researchers in the health sector are expected to conduct new studies without religious and belief bias in order to understand and improve the mental and psychological conditions of patients, so that the mechanisms involved in these positive effects are revealed and possibly insight new in the process of improving people's mental and psychological conditions.