A Comparison Between Structural Couple Therapy and Redecision Couple Therapy on the Psychological Welfare of theIinfertile Couples

The present study was carried out with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of the structural couple therapy and the re-decision one on the psychological welfare of the infertile couples at Sanandaj city. The research method was among applicable researches in terms of objective and among semi-experimental plans of pre-test and post-test types with two experimental groups (Minuchin structural and re-decision) and one control group in terms of methodology. The statistical society included all infertile couples referring to the center of infertility of Besat hospital at Sanandaj city in which 90 people were assigned to three groups as sample volume through convenience sampling method. The evaluation tool of the applied questionnaire was conceptual psychological multi-component welfare scale (Riff, 1989).

In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistical methods such as average, standard deviation and inferential statistics tests such as one-way and multi-ways covariance analyses were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS-22 software. Results of the findings represented that there is a significant relation between the average of psychological welfare scores of the pretest and that of the post-test. The difference between the average of Minuchin structural couple therapy and that of re-decision couple therapy is significant at P<0.01 level.

The difference between the average of re-decision couple therapy and that of control couple therapy is significant at P<0.01 level. The difference between the averages of the Minuchin structural couple therapy group and that of control group is also significant at P<0.01 level. Also, the results obtained from multi-variable covariance analysis represented that there is a significant difference between the three groups in the components of self-government (F(2,26)= 338.88), dominance on environment (F(2,26)= 229.15), personal growth (F(2,26)= 187.98), positive relations (F(2,26)= 303.76), purposeful life (F(2,26)= 50.26), and acceptance (F(2,26)= 323.16) at the level of 0.001 (P<0.01).

In general, the results represent the further effectiveness of Minuchin structural couple therapy on the increase of psychological welfare than that of re-decision couple therapy