An investigation of couple communication program (CCP) on the marital satisfaction of women

The purpose of this study was investigating the effectiveness of couple communication program training on women''s marital satisfaction. This research was a experimental method by pretest-posttest white control group. Statistic population consist of 88 women who referred to the ostandari counseling center in Kermanshah in the first quarter of the 92 and their scores was less than 152 in Enrich Marital Satisfaction questionnaire. Therefore، population via random sampling and finally we selected 20 women and randomly assigned to tow experimental and control groups (N=10). The experimental group whit her spouses received 10 couple communication program session and control group did not. Then Enrich Marital satisfaction were completed by both groups as post-test and follow –up، one week and tow month after completing sessions. The results obtained from covariance analysis indicated that couple communication program intervention improved the women''s marital satisfaction (P<0/05). the results also shoed reliability after tow month follow up for the experimental group. The results confirm that couple communication program (CCP) on improving of women''s marital satisfaction is effective.