Comparing the Effect of Spiritual Psycho Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy on Obsessive Symptoms and Spiritual Health in Patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

The aim of the present study was to compare the efficacy of Spiritual and Cognitive Behavior Psycho Therapy on Obsessive Symptoms and Spiritual Health in Patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.This research was pretest‐posttest semi‐experimental with control group and one month follow-up. 69 non-hospitalized adult patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Roozbeh Hospital in 2019 were selected voluntary and divided randomly in three groups cognitive- behavioral therapy, spiritual therapy and control groups. Empirical groups members participated in 12 sessions psychotherapy. Before and after interventions and follow up stages, three groups completed Yale Brown Obsession Compulsion and spiritual health questionnaires. The data were analyzed by SPSS 21 software and covariance analysis method. The results showed that cognitive-behavioral therapy and spiritual therapy were effective in reducing obsessive-compulsive Symptoms and in both dimensions of obsession and compulsion, spiritual therapy was more effective than cognitive-behavioral therapy. Regarding spiritual health, both treatments were equally effective in increasing religious health and existential health, and no difference was observed between the two treatments.