The effectiveness of enriching communication on family function remarried families

Given the high rates of divorce and the necessity of remarriage, the existence of interpersonal and intra-family relationships and its impact on remarriage families performance is undeniable. Due to the importance of the subject, this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a communication-enrichment-based intervention on family functioning in remarried families in Khorramabad.

This study was conducted as a pretest-posttest and follow-up study with unequal control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of all remarried families with at least one adopted child (3654 families) in Khoramabad city in 2019. Subjects completed the McMaster Family Function Questionnaire. Parents in the experimental group received 12-sessions in 120-minute of 5 weeks of communication enrichment training. Data analysis was performed using repeated measure analysis in SPSS software version 25.

The results showed the effectiveness of communication enrichment package on performance improvement in remarried families.

According to the findings, it can be concluded that using the enrichment package of remarriage families can improve family functioning.