Religiosity, Anxiety, and Depression among a Sample of Iranian Medical Students

Vasegh, Sasan; Mohammadi, Mohammad-Reza

doi:10.2190/j3v5-l316-0u13-7000

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“…In Islamic countries, there have been only a few investigations into this issue Vasegh & Mohammadi, 2007). For this reason, the focus of this article is on the interaction between religion and psychotherapy in people with a tradition-oriented Islamic background.…”

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Religious and cultural aspects of psychotherapy in Muslim patients from tradition-oriented societies

Kizilhan

2014

International Review of Psychiatry

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Patients from collective cultures with a tradition-bound Islamic cultural background (e.g. people from the Middle East and some Far-East countries such Pakistan and Indonesia), have a different perception of disease and different conceptions of healing, which up till now have not been sufficiently appreciated in modern multimodal therapeutic approaches and health management. Taking patients' value systems into consideration in a culture-sensitive way, with reference to their notions of magic, healing ceremonies and religious rituals and especially patterns of relations and experience in the treatment of psychological diseases in medical psychotherapeutic work, with due regard to scientific psychotherapeutic standards, can be used as an intercultural resource and lead to establishing partnership-like relationships between patients and therapists.

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Religious and cultural aspects of psychotherapy in Muslim patients from tradition-oriented societies

Kizilhan

2014

International Review of Psychiatry

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“…Abdel-Khalek (2006) surveyed 2210 Kuwaiti undergraduate students using a self-rating scale that covered religiosity, happiness and mental health and found that those who were religious reported greater happiness. Vasegh & Mohammadi (2007) in their cross-sectional study of 285 medical students at Tehran University found that those reporting higher scores on scales assessing religious feeling were less likely to score highly on depression and anxiety, although this association was statistically significant only for anxiety. There is still, though, a pressing need to conduct research in other regions of the world and to review the existing world literature on this subject.…”

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The need for a category of ‘religious and spiritual problems’ in ICD-11

Abdul-Hamid¹

2011

Int. psychiatry

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The World Health Organization's International Advisory Group for the Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders is currently working on the development of ICD-11 (World Health Organization, 2007). A more responsive ICD coding system should incorporate recent work which suggests that the religious and spiritual domain is important for a comprehensive, culturally sensitive diagnosis and management plan (e.g. Sims, 1992, 2004; Koenig et al, 2008). A ‘religious or spiritual problems’ category, similar to that in DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994), should be included in ICD-11.

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“…Regarding the difference in the prevalence of anxiety and depression, it can be stated that anxiety and depression have epidemic progress and this trend emerges in the shape of the society's mental characteristics (26). For this reason, in the current study a control group was used, so that the progress of comparisons would be examined more realistically.…”

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Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression in Diabetic Patients: A Comparative Study

Javadi¹,

Ziaee²,

Yazdi³

et al. 2017

Biotech Health Sci

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Background: Living with diabetes and managing it can have substantial emotional burden on individuals. These changes might affect individuals' lives in terms of stress and depression. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of stress and depression among diabetic women who referred to endocrine clinic of Qazvin in 2014. Methods: For this purpose, 250 patients (125 individuals suffering from diabetes and 125 individuals as a control group) participated in this study. All individuals completed the beck depression inventory and the cattell anxiety inventory. In addition to these, demographic and clinical records were collected from their medical records and were analyzed by appropriate statistical methods. Results: In terms of the Maximum of mild anxiety there were 52 diabetic individuals (41.6%) versus 69 individuals of the control group (55.2%); in terms of Moderate-severe anxiety there were 73 cases (58.4%) versus 56 patients (44.8%) (P value = 0.031). In studying the Maximum of mild depression, there were 43 patients (34.4%) versus 92 (73.6%); in terms of Moderate-severe depression, there were 82 patients (65.6%) versus 33 (26.4%) (P value = 0.001). On a closer examination among age, type of diabetes, duration of diabetes, and insulin injections; only the duration of having diabetes was significantly associated with depression as one of the mental health variables. Conclusions: This study showed that anxiety and depression are significantly more common among diabetic patients in comparison to the control group in the city of Qazvin; therefore, it is necessary to develop primary care by a system based on the reaction, so that an effective treatment for mental health would take place and, ultimately, the impact of these interventions should be studied.

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Religiosity, Anxiety, and Depression among a Sample of Iranian Medical Students

Abstract: These findings provide further evidence for a protective role of religion against anxiety and depression but more studies are required.

Cited by 79 publications

References 35 publications

Religious and cultural aspects of psychotherapy in Muslim patients from tradition-oriented societies

Religious and cultural aspects of psychotherapy in Muslim patients from tradition-oriented societies

The need for a category of ‘religious and spiritual problems’ in ICD-11

Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression in Diabetic Patients: A Comparative Study

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