بررسی اثربخشی آموزش دلگرمی بر کاهش افسردگی سربازان

Introduction: maintain physical health andpsychological readness, and given that militarypersonnel and soldiers in military environmentis very important. the main purpose of thisresearch was to determine the effectiveness ofencouragement training in alleviating depressionamong soldiers.method: the design of research from the typesemi experimental, was fulfilled in controlgroup and with pretest-post test. the populationof this research were all conscript soldiers thatat least hold diplomas and degrees at thirdsergeant and between 18-26 years of age. 40conscripts who received scores of 19 to 29(moderate to severe depression) in the beckdepression inventory were selected randomlyand inserted randomly in two experimental (20)and control (20) groups. the experimental groupreceived 10 sessions of group encouragementtraining (two sessions of 90 minutes in week).symptoms of depression in both group wasevaluated before (pre test) and after (post test)of the intervention program. research dataanalyzed using covariance analyze method.results: findings of the present study indicatedthat group encouragement training programreduced the symptoms of depression in theexperimental group significantly more thancontrol group.conclusion: effectiveness of group encouragementtraining program in alleviating soldier`sdepression needs more theoretical and practicalimplications that are discussed here.