Comparison of the Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavior Group Therapy with Religious Advice and Classic Cognitive- Behavior Group Therapy on the Quality of Marital Relationship of Women

The Purpose of this study is to compare the efficiency of cognitive behavior group therapy incorporating with religious advices with that of cla-ssic cognitive behavior group therapy on the quality of marital relationship in women a sample of 33 women who were recruited through clinical prac-tices of psychotherapists was selectedby means of on-hand-sampling and randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. One of the interve-ntion groups received 8 sessions of CBRA techniques and the other rec-eived 8 sessions of ICBT techniques. Patients were assessed repeatedly thr-ough self report measures, including quality of Marital Relationship Invent-ory and Attitude Religious Inventory.Result indicate that CBRA group proved to be more significantly more efficient on the quality of marital relationship than the CBT control gr-oup (p<0/0001). There were significa-nt differences between groups in the style of communicative subscale in the quality of marital relationship questi-onnaire (p<0/0001), but on the other subscale there were no significant differences (p>0/05).