Study the Relation of Marriage Satisfaction with Mental Health in Pregnant and Un-pregnant Women

Marriage satisfaction is one of the effective factors in consistency and permanency of family and also wives and children’s physiological sanitation, so this study was done by the objective of studying the relation of marriage satisfaction with mental health in pregnant and un-pregnant women of Ardebil.

This analytic-descriptive study was done in 100 referred pregnant women and 100 un-pregnant women to urban remedial sanitary centers related to Ardebil University of medical sciences which had been chosen in a form of cluster sampling. Accumulating tool of information involved standard ENRICH questionnaires which had 47 questions about marriage satisfaction with 0.95 reliability coefficient and Goldberg and Hiler’s remedial healthy questionnaires which had 28 questions with 0.84 reliability coefficient. Questionnaires were completed by mothers themselves who had the necessary qualifications of research units. Information was analyzed by SPSS 16 and statistical T-Test and T 2 Hoteling.

It was not seen significant difference in 100 un-pregnant women with 135.61+-15.53 average ENRICH scores and in 100 pregnant women with 136.38+-18.37 average ENRICH scores in the amount of marriage satisfaction, but there was significant difference in the score of psychological health of researched group. Then, (p<0.05) women had not enough psychological health during pregnancy and there was significant relation between mental health and marriage satisfaction in researched groups (p<0.05).

The necessity of consulting during pregnancy and during married life is recommended with consideration to results from research for prevention and on-time treatment of possible problems in mental health and as a result of possible decrease of marriage conflicts and improvement of their communicational skills.