IRCT2014020716513N1 IRCT 2014-12-15 Vice Chancellor for research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences Effect of family-based education on level of depression in Stomach Cancer patients Effect of family-based education on level of depression in Stomach cancer patients 2014-07-11 anticipated 80 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/15429 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Not blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Other. N/A stomach cancer. Intervention 1: In the control group, the training course includes five successive sessions with the patient. The formulated content would be taught in five and thirty minutes sessions in several successive days and at the beginning of the first session pretest and at the end the post test would be taken from the topics of interest to confirm the effect of the presented training. The training content includes explaining the disease and its implications and the importance of being informed(first session),acceptance and cure(secondary session),importance of observance and correct use drug(third session),psvchological complication and depresion and the ways of opposition fourth and fifth). Afterwards, phone follow up would continue every two weeks. Intervention 2: The training course consists of five successive sessions with the patient and one of his family members in the test group . The formulated content would be taught in five ، thirty minutes sessions in several successive days and at the beginning of the first session pretest and at the end the posttest would be taken from the topics of interest to confirm the effect of the presented training. The training content includes explaining the disease and its implications and the importance of being informed(first session),acceptance and cure(secondary session),importance of observance and correct use drug(third session),psvchological complication and depresion and the ways of opposition fourth and fifth). Afterwards, phone follow up would continue every two weeks.