effects of sensory processing intervention on depression among adults

Depression, as one of the prevalent psychological difficulties, has been studied in adults from differentperspectives. this study studied depression from sensory processing aspect. the aim of this research was toexplore the effects of intervention based on sensory processing model on depression in adults. the study was arepeated-measures design in one-group of thirty-eight participants. the level of depression was assessed byusing promis® depression questionnaire. in a screening test, all the participants had reported a higherdepression level than the population mean. adolescent/adult sensory profile® was used to explore participants’sensory patterns and the intervention was applied based on dunn’s sensory model. to explore the efficacy of theintervention, depression was measured in four time-points including a month before the intervention, rightbefore, immediately after, and a month after intervention as a follow-up test. the results showed that sensoryprocessing intervention had a significant effect on reducing depression between the time-points and depressionlevel was significantly reduced immediately after the intervention. this study has implications for mental healthprofessionals to consider sensory processing in individual mental health interventions.