en تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research Article <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Background:</span>&nbsp;During the recent decades, there have been two major leaps in treatment of depression using the medication to pacify and relieve depression signs and behavior cognitive therapy. The available evidences emphasize the treatment success with some group training methods including stress management, cognitive group therapy, and eye movement desensitization in reducing depression.</p> </aside> <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Objectives:</span>&nbsp;The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of these methods on reducing depression in patients with spinal cord injuries.</p> </aside> <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Patients and Methods:</span>&nbsp;In a quasi-experimental project, 60 patients with spinal cord injuries were recruited and randomly allocated to one of the following treatment groups: stress management, cognitive group therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, and no cognitive treatment groups. Depression status and severity was determined using Beck depression inventory.</p> </aside> <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Results:</span>&nbsp;Although baseline depression state was comparable across the study groups, following training, the mean depression score in the groups received eye movement desensitization (14.60 &plusmn; 3.15) and stress management (22.66 &plusmn; 3.37) were significantly lower than in cognitive group therapy (27.33 &plusmn; 4.15) or in no cognitive treatment groups (32.13 &plusmn; 1.80) (P < 0.001). Between-group covariate analysis showed superiority of eye movement desensitization method on other treatment methods including stress management and cognitive group therapy (P < 0.001).</p> </aside> <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Conclusions:</span>&nbsp;Our study showed higher effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing methods compared with stress management and cognitive group therapy in reducing depression severity in patients with spinal cord injuries.</p> </aside> Depression, Cognitive Therapy, Spinal Injuries, Eye Movement Desensitization and Processing 35 38 http://ajnpp.umsha.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-2-9&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Akbar Hemmati Sabet 100319475328460033 100319475328460033 No Young Researchers Club, Research and Sceince Branch, Islamic Azad Univesity, Tehran, IR Iran Alaleh Ashouri 100319475328460034 100319475328460034 No Department of Psychology, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, IR Iran Mohammad Hemmati 100319475328460035 100319475328460035 No Department of Psychology, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, IR Iran Daryush Amini 100319475328460036 100319475328460036 No Department of Psychology, Farhangian University, Hamadan, IR Iran Mohammad Ahmadpanah Ahmadpanah@umsha.ac.ir 100319475328460037 100319475328460037 Yes Research Center for Behavioral Disorders and Substances Abuse, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan IR Iran