The efficacy of Spiritual skills training in promoting quality of life and life hope of mothers Having Child with intellectual disability

According to the situation of children with intellectual disability and the adverse effects of this crisis on mothers, by creating physical, psychological and social stresses that lead to isolation, a sharp decline in quality of life and life hope. Then it is necessary to be attentioned to the importance of spiritual skills. This is a pretest- posttest control group semi-experimental research. 20 having Child with intellectual disability at the Shahid Sarikhani Exceptional School in Tehran in 2017-2018 academic year, were assigned to two groups of 10 subjects. Data of mothers' quality of life and life hope was gathered by quality of life questionnaire (26-136 score ) and Snyder’s hope scale(12-48 score). The Spiritual skills training were performed for the experimental group in 8 sessions for 90 minutes, while control group did not receive any training. Subjects were compared and evaluated after the sessions.The results showed that the mean life hop score of mothers in the intervention group increased significantly from 20.11±3.21 before the intervention to 26.00±3.24 after the intervention and the mean quality of life score increased significantly form 67.00±11.83 to 72.22±10.10 (p < 0.01). Based on the results of this research, Spiritual skill training has positive effect on promoting quality of life and life hope of mothers having Child with intellectual disability.