Comparison of the effectiveness of group life and relaxation skills training on nurses' depressive symptoms

This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of life skills training and group relaxation on depressive symptoms of Imam Khomeini nurses in Shahrak. The statistical population of this study was all nurses of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Arak. From this population, 45 people were randomly selected and randomly divided into three experimental groups 1, experimental group 2 and control; The sample size was 45 people, each group consisting of 15 people. Experimental group 1 received life skills training in 10 sessions of 45 minutes twice a week and experimental group 2 received light training in 10 sessions of 45 minutes twice a week. Beck Depression Inventory (1996) were the tools used in this study. Inferential statistics that data were used for one-factor covariance and multivariate covariance tests due to pre-test. Then, Ben Foroni post hoc test was used to compare the means by two.  Both life skills and group relaxation approaches have a significant effect on the depressive symptoms of nurses in Imam Khomeini Hospital in Arak. Comparison of the two approaches showed that the life skills  approach to group relaxation is based on depressive symptoms. Also, there is no statistically significant difference between the mean scores of post-test and the mean scores of follow-up test, which shows the stability of the results affected by therapeutic interventions over time (P≥0.001). It seems that both approaches affect the research variables.