Effectiveness of Depression Reduction Program for the Chronic Disease Patients through Buddhists integrated

บทคัดย่อ

This quasi-experimental research was to determine the effects of Program to Reduction of Depression in Patients with Chronic Diseases by Buddhist integration. 100 Patients with Chronic Diseases at Makarak hospital, Kanchanaburi Province. Basic data were collected from questionnaires and the Thai depression inventory (TDI), before and after the training by Dharma Practice. Content analysis was used for qualitative data and descriptive statistics and t-test using SPSS were used for quantitative analysis.
The results of the study revealed that the level of depression after experiment, the experiment group had shown decreasing of level of depression at 0.01 significant level.  
These results implied that program to reduction of depression in patients with chronic diseases by Buddhist integration could reduce depression in patients with chronic diseases.