The Effectiveness of Islamic Teaching Based Religious-Spiritual Psychotherapy on Quality of Life, in Infertile Women

Studies show that the negative psychological effects of infertility are higher in women than in men. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of spiritual-religious psychotherapy based on Islamic teachings on the quality of life of infertile women. The method of this quasi-experimental design was pretest-posttest with a control group. The statistical population of this study was all infertile women in Shiraz in the summer of 1396. A sample of 36 people, 18 in the experimental group and 18 in the control group, was selected through a sample of Shiraz's infertility centers. The two groups were matched in terms of the criteria for entering the research and the experimental group was subjected to spiritual-religious psychotherapy based on Islamic teachings for a total of 8 sessions in 45 minutes; while the control group did not receive any intervention. Both groups completed the quality of life questionnaire (short form 36 questions, 36-SF) before and after intervention as a pretest and post-test intervention. Data analysis was done using SPSS-16 software and covariance analysis. The effect of the spiritual-religious education program based on Islamic teachings on quality of life was significant at a level less than 0.05, which means that 0.882 of the changes in mean post-test scores relative to the variable pre-test of quality of life in The experimental group was based on the spiritual-religious education program based on the teachings of Islam. The results showed that the effectiveness of spiritual-religious psychotherapy based on the teachings of Islam had an impact on the quality of life of infertile women and improved them. Therefore, this is a matter of great interest in our society, which has a special place in religion and spirituality.