NCT04631900

Spiritual Intervention for Persons With Depression

Effect of a Community-oriented Spiritual Intervention Programme in Persons With Depression: a Randomized Wait-list Control Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 57 (actual)
• Sponsor: City University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 64 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Detailed 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

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Christianity approach as framework for spiritual intervention	Intervention includes use of Bible verses, prayer, hymns singing, sharing and caring for others (mutual support) within the group. Through these activities, participants have opportunities to re-build and further develop their connectedness to themselves, to others, to their living, their environment, and to larger meaning and purpose.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-11-27
• Primary completion: 2023-03-28
• Completion: 2023-03-28
• First posted: 2020-11-17
• Last updated: 2024-02-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China