73 April 2019, Volume 5, Issue 2, Number 17 Research Paper: Comparison of Religious Teaching with Muscle Relaxation Methods on Anxiety Patients Fateme Attar Ghasbe 1 , Naema Khodadadi-Hassankiadeh 2,3 , Shahrokh Yousefzadeh-Chabok 2,3 , Anita Reihanian 2,4 , Samaneh Ghor- bani Shirkouhi 3 1. Shafa Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran 2. Guilan Road Trauma Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran 3. Neuroscience Research Center, Poursina Hospital, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran 4. Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran * Corresponding Author: Naema Khodadadi-Hassankiadeh Address: Guilan Road Trauma Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran. Tel: +98 (911) 3378344, Fax: +98 (13) 33339842 E-mail: n_khodadady@yahoo.com Background: Anxiety in psychiatric patients is more prevalent than the general population. Non- pharmacological methods for the treatment of anxiety are benefcial to the health of the patient, but it is not clear which of these approaches are more appropriate. Objectives: The aim of this sudy is comparison of the efects religious teachings and muscle relaxation on reducing anxiety in patients hospitalized to psychiatric hospital. Materials & Methods: This is a quasi-experipsychiatric sudy with pre and pos-tes with control group that was performed on patients hospitalized to the ward of psychiatric hospital during the period from March to June, 2016. Out of 100 patients under the Spielberger anxiety screening, 60 anxious patients were diagnosed and 45 subjects who entered the sudy were randomly assigned to three groups of 15. Univariate analysis of Variance was used to analyze the data. Results: There was a signifcant diference between the pos-training scores in the three groups (P=0.0001 and F=19.11). According to the Bonferroni tes, there was a signifcant diference between the mean scores after the training in both groups of religious teachings (P=0.001 and MD=8.03, and relaxation with control group (P=0.0001 and MD=12.48). However, there is no satisically signifcant diference between the mean scores after training in the groups of religious teachings with relaxation (P=0.094 and MD=4.45). Conclusion: The use of the religious teaching module reduces of anxiety in psychiatric patients. Religious teachings and relaxation techniques are equally efective in alleviating the anxiety of psychiatric patients. Therefore, it is suggesed that these complementary and low cos methods be used to reduce anxiety insead. Keywords: Muscle Relaxation; Anxiety; Hospitals; Psychiatric A B S T R A C T Citation Attar Ghasbe F, Khodadadi-Hassankiadeh N, Yousefzadeh-Chabok Sh, Reihanian A, Ghorbani Shirkouhi S. Comparison of Religious Teaching with Muscle Relaxation Methods on Anxiety Patients. Caspian J Neurol Sci. 2019; 5(2):73-80. https://doi. org/10.29252/CJNS.5.17.73 Running Title Religious Teaching and Muscle Relaxation Methods in Anxiety https://doi.org/10.29252/CJNS.5.17.73 Use your device to scan and read the artcle online Caspian Journal of Neurological Sciences "Caspian J Neurol Sci" Journal Homepage: http://cjns.gums.ac.ir Article info: Received: 02 Feb 2019 Firs Revision: 29 Feb 2019 Accepted: 03 Mar 2019 Published: 01 Apr 2019 2018 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC-By-NC license.