The Effect of Educating Based on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) on Marital Quality Components of Couples Who Are Coping with Breast Cancer

The This paper is purpose of this study was to study determine the effects of an education program based on rational rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) on marital quality components of couples coping with breast cancer. The present study is semi-experimental in terms of According to the purpose of this study, and is conducted it was semi-experimental and its design wasby pretest and posttest with a control group in terms of plan. The statistical population of the present study includes included all the couples coping  with breast cancer who visited Velayat hospital in Qazvin province in October 2018 tofor follow-up cancer treatment. Sixty women were selected via available sampling and pretested. Of Among them, 18 women, along with their husbands (18 couples), who had a score lower average on the marital quality of relationship scale were selected and randomly assigned categorized into two groups including experimental and control. The experimental group received 8 eight 2-hour sessions of education based on REBT. The research instrument was the questionnaire of Perceived Relationship Quality Components (PRQC). The data of this study were analyzed using SPSS-24 software and Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA). The results of the present study showed that the experimental and control groups were significantly different in terms of quality components of marital relationship, so that the amount of quality components of marital relationship in couples in the experimental group was significantly higher than that of the control group. (P <0.001). Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that education based on rational-emotionalemotive-behavioral therapy improves the quality components of marital relationship in couples who are coping with breast cancer.