Therapy (CBT) and Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for pregnant Women to Increase Marital Satisfaction

The aimof thisstudy wasto compare cognitive -behavioral therapy with interpersonal psychotherapy inpregnant women's maritalsatis faction. Because women experience physiological and psychological change sinpregnancy, couples relationship is changed as well as impact on thehealth of the motherand baby, thecouple's marital satisfaction decreases. The study population comprised all pregnant women that were come to ValiAsr Reproductive Health Research Center. For sample selection, available sampling method was used. Then the set of selected 36 subject randomly, assignedto 3 groups (CBT, IPT and control group). Group CBT and IPT were run in 8 sessions weekly. To collect data demographic inventory and Marital Satisfaction Scale (ENRICH) was used. Since the valueof F calculated for the effect of group (F=18.26) is significant at the 0.01 level, the analysis of the covariance between the three groups indicating that after adjusting for pre-test scores between the post-test there are significant difference. Results of post hoc test indicated that both training methods IPT and CBT, there is no significant difference in post-test scores. But the two methods were statistically compared to the control group at post-test scores showed significant increases in marital satisfaction. It found from this study that both methods, despite differences in their theoretical and philosophical foundations, practical counseling on marital satisfaction for women not much different.