Problem-solving skill training and marital satisfaction

INTERVENTION: Intervention 1: Intervention group: Problem solving skill training in the intervention group was provided in six 80‐minute sessions, in 10–11‐person groups.Training sessions focused mainly on breastfeeding‐related problems. All sessions were held in one of the recruited healthcare centers which had better training facilities. All mothers in both groups completed the ENRICH inventory before the intervention, immediately after the sixth training session for the mothers in the experimental group, and one month afterwards.Different content at each session include: The first session: Familiarization of group members with each other; definition of life skills and PSS and the necessity for their training; emotion‐ and problems‐focused coping; emotions and the importance of their management; the phases of PSS; The first step of problem solving (orientation to a problem). The second session: ways to improve orientation to the problem. The third session: the second step of problem solving (clear definition of the problem). The fourth session: The third step of problem solving (generating different solutions to the problem) and the fourth step of problem solving (eliminating unfeasible and irrational solutions and selecting the best one). The fifth session: The use of the ‘advantages‐disadvantages’ technique for selecting the best solution. The fifth step of problem solving (implementation and reassessment of the solution). The sixth session: using the steps of problem solving for a selected p CONDITION: Low to moderate marital satisfaction. PRIMARY OUTCOME: Comparison marital satisfaction and its dimensions before and after problem solving skill training in experimental and comparison groups. Timepoint: before the intervention, immediately after the intervention and one month afterwards. Method of measurement: ENRICH questionnaire. INCLUSION CRITERIA: Had a childbirth at 37th–42nd weeks of their pregnancy at least two months before the study. Had a low‐to moderate marital satisfaction based on the results of the ENRICH questionnaire. Did not divorce. Possessed basic literacy skills. Only wife of her husband Had a married life of 1–10 years. Did not have a baby with major congenital anomalies. Had a planned pregnancy. Neither experienced any serious stressful life event during the past three months prior to the study nor suffered from post‐natal depression and psychosis. Lack of serious mental and physical illness (cancer) and advanced chronic diseases. Had no addiction to opioids, psychoactive agents, and alcohol among the mothers or their husbands.