THE EFFECT OF COUNSELING BASED ON COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL APPROACH ON THE MARITAL SATISFACTION OF COUPLES WHO REFFERED TO THE SELECTED HEALTHY CENTERS OF URMIA, 2015

Marital satisfaction is a very important and complicated aspect of a marital relationship. Due to midwives awareness of issues related to marital relationship and constant contact of them with the society that can act as professional family advisers, this study done to determine the effect of counseling based on cognitive-behavioral approach on marital satisfaction.
This is apre-post semiexperimental study by control group. After completion the ENRICH marital satisfaction questionnaire, 60 couples by the inclusion criteria and score of 30-60 simply selected from 3 randomly selected healthy centers (20 couples from each center). Then the couples devided to two intervention and control groups randomly. The intervention done for 5 counseling sessions of 2 hours with one week intervals. No intervention done in the control group.After one month passed the last counseling session, the questionnaire completed by the couples again. Collected datas analyzed by use SPSS-22.
After intervention, the ANCOVA analaysis of scores by deletion of pre-influence showed significant difference in total matital satisfaction in men and women of both of control and intervention groups (p Marital counseling based on cognitive-behavioral approach has a great influence on marital satisfaction of couples, especially on couples communication, conflict-solving skills and sexual relationship. So it should be done in the healthy centers by trained personels such as masters of ejucated of midwifery counseling.