The Effect of Self-Education Package Using Cognitive Behavioral Methods on Sexual Communication of Married Couples

The present research tries to investigate the influence of self-education package (using cognitive-behavioral method) on sexual communications of couples. 24 couples (48 people) were selected from among the clients of west Tehran and put randomly in the first experiment, control and second experiment groups. The first experiment group received the self-education package (with cognitive-behavioral method), for the second experiment group, the package content was taught in traditional method of lecture. A researcher-made questionnaire was used as data gathering tool in order to measure sexual communications which was conducted in a monitoring study on 30 people (15couples) similar to the main sample. It was tested by means of internal similarity method and Cronbachʹs alpha (0.738). Validity was also tested by experts. In order to analyze the obtained data, multi-variate covariance analysis (MANCOVA) was used. Results showed that the sexual selfeducation package had influence on the quality increase of couples sexual communications (p < 0.05).