Investigation of Effectiveness of Setual Education Based on behavioral-cognitive method on Sextual Intimacy, Knowledge and Self-expression of Married Woman in Mobarakeh

Today, with technology development, sex has become an important topic, but sextual matters are encountered as a taboo almost in all cultures. So the purpose of this research is: Investigation of effectiveness of sextual education based on behavoiral-cognitive method on sextual intimacy, knowledge and self-expression of married woman in Mobarakeh. This research was a semi-experimental, pre-test, post-test study with control group. It was performed on 26 married women. They were divided into two groups of test and control by selection or randomly and Six two hours educational sessions were conducted for test group. Research materials: Hooper’s sextual knowledge questionair, Dr. William and snel sextual self-expression questionnaire an Bagarozi’s sextual intimacy. Data was analyzed by software SPSS and multi-way variance analysis test. The results showed significant difference between test group and control group after sextual education in terms of sextual intimacy, knowledge and self-expression. So Sextual education method can play a main role in improving stable sextual relationship and family health by present research addresses these components.