Examining the Improving Strategies for Iranian Couple Communication Patterns: A Scoping Review

As proper communication is the key to a strong family and the couples must follow effective communication patterns in these relationships to strengthen the family foundation, improving these relationships has been very effective.

The purpose of this study was to review the strategies for enhancing the couple communication patterns.

In this scoping review, the SID, Barkat, PubMed, Cochrane, Scopus, Web of Science, Uptodate, Magiran, and Psych INFO databases were searched for interventional studies from 1990 to 2019 on Iranian couples. At the end of the search, 131 papers were obtained, and finally, 19 papers were included in the scoping review.

The classification was based on educational and therapeutic strategies. The educational strategies included training communication skills and training life skills and the therapeutic strategies included couple therapy, narrative therapy, and family therapy.

According to the results, it seems that to improve couple communication patterns, both life and communication skills are needed for all couples. Communication and life skills training can be more convenient and less costly than the rest. Each of Treatment methods need more specialized courses and one cannot reach useful results by some brief sessions, but training can be provided to couples even through the book.