The aim of the present study is to determine the effectiveness of clinical religious cares on the anxiety, depression, and spiritual health of hospitalized patients in Qom-Iran.
At the beginning of study, the researcher selected 150 hospitalized patients who were not mentally sick and did not receive specific drugs. The samples were divided in two control and intervention groups.
A three section questionnaire has been applied to collect data, consisted of 1- demographic data, 2- standardized questionnaire of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and 3-Palutzian& Ellison’s 20-item questionnaire of spiritual health. It measures both religious and existential well-being.
Then, the subjects were assigned to control and intervention groups, randomly. At the next stage, intervention of a clergyman was applied as a religious care among the intervention group. Intervention type, content and method were designed with regard to the opinions of the religious experts and colleagues at the pre-test results analysis stage. After the educational intervention, mentioned questionnaires were distributed among the participants once more, aiming at comparing the effects of religious intervention on the test group members’ Anxiety, depression and spiritual health and those of the control group.