Abstract:
The purposes of this quasi-experimental research were to compare depression among patients with depressive disorder before and after received family based Interpersonal psychotherapy, and to compare depression among patients with depressive disorder who received family based Interpersonal psychotherapy and those who received regular caring activities. Forty patients with depressive receiving services in outpatient department at Chulalongkorn memorial hospital, who met the inclusion criteria by gender and age, were matched pair and were randomly assigned to experimental group and control group, 20 subjects in each group. The research instruments consisted of: The Family based Interpersonal psychotherapy and, Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD-17). All instruments were tested for content validity by 5 professional experts. The reliability of the instruments were reported by Chronbachs Alpha coefficient of .87. Data were analyzed using Standard deviation and t-test. Major findings were as follows: 1. The average of depression among patients with major depressive disorder after received the family based interpersonal psychotherapy were significantly lower than that before, at p.05 level 2. The average of depression among patient with major depressive disorder who received the family based interpersonal psychotherapy were significantly lower than those who received regular caring ,at p.05 level field of study Mental health and psychiatric Nursing.