The Effectiveness of the Group Education of Islamic Meditation Pattern on Life Style and the Married Women's Generalized Anxiety

The present study which is a quasi-experimental research was conducted with the purpose of investigating the effectiveness of the group education of Islamic meditation pattern on life style and the married women's generalized anxiety and was performed in an area in Isfahan named Bonroud in 2014. Three stages of sampling, convenience, purposive, and random, were done among the population of married women with generalized anxiety disorder living in Bonroud. Finally, 24 women were randomly placed in two groups of test and control. The tools applied in this study were the diagnostic criteria of generalized anxiety disorder based on DSM-IV, the short scale of GAD-7, and Life Style Questionnaire (LSQ). These two questionnaires were completed during pre-test, post-test, and 45 day follow-up phases by test and control groups. The statistical data were analyzed via analysis of covariance. The results showed that the interventions of the group education of Islamic meditation pattern result in the improvement of life style and reduction of the level of generalized anxiety in the married women with generalized anxiety disorder (P=0.001).