Spiritual Intervention for Persons With Depression

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Mental health is an integral part of health and depression has become a common and serious mental disorder. The research study aims to explore the effectiveness of spiritual intervention in persons with depression.

Clinical Trial Description

This study aims to develop a community-oriented spiritual intervention programme that focuses on connectedness and to explore its effectiveness in persons with depression. Objectives: 1. To evaluate the effect of this spiritual intervention on reducing depressive symptoms. 2. To evaluate the effect of spiritual intervention on enhancing hope, meaning in life, self-esteem, and social support. 3. To examine the moderatioon effect of demographic variables on the intervention effect in reducing the depressive and anxiety symptoms, and ennhancing hope, meaning in life, self-esteem, and social support. 4. To examine participant's perspectives on the healing mechanisms of the intervention. The study is conducted as a randomized-controlled trial using a wait-list control group for comparison. The wait-list control group will receive the intervention after the completion of the post-questionnaire. The intervention is an 8 session weekly programme. Each weekly session is around 2 hours in length and the content is as below: 1. Spirituality, mental health and depression 2. Connectedness 3. Forgiving and freedom 4. Suffering and transcendence 5. Hope 6. Gratitude 7. Relapse prevention and spiritual growth 8. Wrap-up and celebration ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT04631900
Study type	Interventional
Source	City University of Hong Kong
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	N/A
Start date	November 27, 2021
Completion date	March 28, 2023

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