fa تأثیر شناخت‌درمانی بر افسردگی: مرور سیستماتیک General پژوهشي Research Article <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Background and Aim:&nbsp;</strong>Depression is one of the mental disorders. Cognitive therapy is a client-centered approaches that relief of depression. This study was performed with the aim to systematically review the studies which evaluated the effect of cognitive therapy on depression.&nbsp;<br> <strong>Materials and Methods: </strong>In this systematic review, electronic searching of clinical trials in data bases of Cochrane, Medline, Google scholar, EMBASE, Sid, Iranmedex and Magiran, were performed. Literature searched from 2003 to 2013 with the keywords of &ldquo;cognitive therapy&rdquo; and &ldquo;depression&rdquo; in the title and abstract of articles.&nbsp;<br> <strong>Results:</strong> InTotally, 20 full text articles were reviewed. After searching, screening and evaluation, the final results showed that from total of studies, 16 researches have positive effects on cognitive therapy for depression, and only 4 researches had no effect on the improvement of depression. In 13 studies, cognitive therapy for psychiatric patients with depression had done that in 9 cases of them, the intervention was led to a decline in depression. Also, findings indicated that cognitive therapy is beneficial for depression clinical and nonclinical groups but this efficacy is very different in each group.&nbsp;<br> <strong>Conclusion:&nbsp;</strong></span></span>The&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Studies have investigated different people, small sample sizes, different cognitive therapy interventions and different cultural context have been carried out. According to findings, cognitive therapy on symptoms of depression had effectively. Further studies are needed for the effect of cognitive therapy alone, on depression.</span></span></div> Individual cognitive therapy,Group cognitive therapy,Clinical depression,Non clinical depression,Systematic review 255 267 http://mcj.bums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-466&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Nahid Dehghan Nayeri ناهید دهقان نیری No Professor, Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran اﺳﺘﺎد، ﻣﺮکز ﺗﺤﻘﯿﻘﺎت پرﺳﺘﺎری و ﻣﺎﻣﺎیی،گروه پرﺳﺘﺎری، داﻧشکده پرﺳﺘﺎری،داﻧشگاه ﻋﻠﻮم پزﺷکی ﺗﻬﺮان، ﺗﻬﺮان، ایﺮان mrjane Mardani Hamooleh مرجان مردانی حموله No Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran اﺳﺘﺎدیﺎر،گروه پرستاری،داﻧشکده پرﺳﺘﺎری،داﻧﺸگاه ﻋﻠﻮم پزشکی ایﺮان، ﺗﻬﺮان، ایﺮان Nasrin Rezaee نسرین رضایی Yes Nasrin Rezaee, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran nasrin_rezaee2005@yahoo.com ﻧﺴﺮیﻦ رﺿﺎئی،اﺳﺘﺎدیﺎر،گروه پرﺳﺘﺎری،داﻧشکده پرﺳﺘﺎری،داﻧشگاهﻋﻠﻮم پزشکی زاﻫﺪان،زاﻫﺪان، ایﺮان. آدرس:زاﻫﺪان-ﺑﻠﻮار ﺑﻬﺸﺖ-ﻣﯿﺪان ﻣﺸﺎﻫﯿﺮ-داﻧشگاهﻋﻠﻮم پزﺷکی زاﻫﺪان-داﻧشکده پرﺳﺘﺎری وﻣﺎﻣﺎیی ﺗﻠﻔﻦ:09153411705 ﻧﻤﺎﺑﺮ:2442481-051 پست اﻟکتروﻧﯿکی:nasrin_rezaee2005@yahoo.com