The assessment of correlation between the quality of couples relationships with attitude and practical commitment to prayer in women who refer to Comprehensive Health Centers in Kashan city in 2018

Prayer is one of God's commands to create a major role in human mental relaxation. This study aimed to assess the Correlation between the quality of couples’ relationships with attitude and Practical commitment to prayer in women referring to Comprehensive Health Centers of Kashan in 2018.

This descriptive-analytic study was performed on 350 women referring to Kashan Comprehensive Health Centers in 2018. Based on random sampling, a Comprehensive Health Center was selected from each geographic region and a number of available samples were selected based on the subjects covered by each center. The questionnaires included demographic characteristics questionnaire, standard questionnaire of couples' relationships, and attitude and practical commitment to prayer scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS software (V 16) using pearson correlation coefficient, multivariate regression and t-test. The level of significance was defined as less than 0.05.

The results showed that there was a positive relationship between the quality couple's relationships and the attitude and practical attachment to the prayer and the level of spouse's literacy (P<0.001). There was a negative correlation between the quality of couples' relationships and age (P=0.003), duration of marriage (P=0.007) and number of children (P=0.003), also. By implementing multivariate regression, attitude and practical commitment to prayer (P<0.001) and the level of spouse's literacy were related to couples' quality of relationship (P=0.014).

Positive attitude and practical commitment to prayer and increasing the literacy of spouse increases the quality of couples' relationships.