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Impact of group assertiveness-based sexual training on the quality of marital relationships among female university students

BACKGROUND: Sexual assertiveness plays a crucial role in the quality of sex, as well as in investigating and treating sexual problems. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of assertiveness-based sexual training on the quality of marital relationships of married female students. METH...

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Autores principales: Dastyar, Neda, Sarasyabi, Ameneh Safarzadeh, Shakiba, Mansour, Navidian, Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6615125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31334263
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_440_18
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author Dastyar, Neda
Sarasyabi, Ameneh Safarzadeh
Shakiba, Mansour
Navidian, Ali
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Sarasyabi, Ameneh Safarzadeh
Shakiba, Mansour
Navidian, Ali
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description BACKGROUND: Sexual assertiveness plays a crucial role in the quality of sex, as well as in investigating and treating sexual problems. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of assertiveness-based sexual training on the quality of marital relationships of married female students. METHODS: This quasi-experimental study was done in southeastern Iran in the academic year of 2017. A total of 80 married women were chosen from university students through convenience sampling, and they were assigned to the intervention (n = 40) and control (n = 40) groups. Data were collected using the Perceived Relationship Quality Components Inventory. For the intervention group, assertiveness-based sexual counseling was provided in four sessions (90–120 min each session). The posttest was performed 12 weeks after the last counseling session. Independent t-test and covariance analysis were employed to analyze data using SPSS version 21 software. RESULTS: After the intervention, the two groups revealed a significant difference in their respective mean total score of the quality of various dimensions of marital relationships (P = 0.0001). This indicates that assertiveness-based sexual counseling has improved this mean total score in the intervention group compared to the control group. CONCLUSION: Given the positive impact of assertiveness-based sexual training on the quality of students' marital relationships, the integration of sexual training with focus on assertiveness in usual sexual counseling will help therapists to improve the quality of marital relationship from the perspective of women.
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spelling pubmed-66151252019-07-22 Impact of group assertiveness-based sexual training on the quality of marital relationships among female university students Dastyar, Neda Sarasyabi, Ameneh Safarzadeh Shakiba, Mansour Navidian, Ali J Educ Health Promot Original Article BACKGROUND: Sexual assertiveness plays a crucial role in the quality of sex, as well as in investigating and treating sexual problems. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of assertiveness-based sexual training on the quality of marital relationships of married female students. METHODS: This quasi-experimental study was done in southeastern Iran in the academic year of 2017. A total of 80 married women were chosen from university students through convenience sampling, and they were assigned to the intervention (n = 40) and control (n = 40) groups. Data were collected using the Perceived Relationship Quality Components Inventory. For the intervention group, assertiveness-based sexual counseling was provided in four sessions (90–120 min each session). The posttest was performed 12 weeks after the last counseling session. Independent t-test and covariance analysis were employed to analyze data using SPSS version 21 software. RESULTS: After the intervention, the two groups revealed a significant difference in their respective mean total score of the quality of various dimensions of marital relationships (P = 0.0001). This indicates that assertiveness-based sexual counseling has improved this mean total score in the intervention group compared to the control group. CONCLUSION: Given the positive impact of assertiveness-based sexual training on the quality of students' marital relationships, the integration of sexual training with focus on assertiveness in usual sexual counseling will help therapists to improve the quality of marital relationship from the perspective of women. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6615125/ /pubmed/31334263 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_440_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Education and Health Promotion http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_440_18
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