Examining intervention hours attended for couples randomly assigned to receive relationship education.

Autor: Carlson RG; Department of Educational Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA., Gao R; Department of Educational Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA., Gordon R; Department of Educational Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA., Go J; Department of Educational Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA., Taylor DD; Department of Counselor Education and School Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orange County, California, USA., Barden SM; Department of Counselor Education and School Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orange County, California, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of marital and family therapy [J Marital Fam Ther] 2023 Jul; Vol. 49 (3), pp. 561-580. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 17.
DOI: 10.1111/jmft.12644
Abstrakt: Relationship education (RE) has shown promise as an effective intervention for couples. Yet, challenges exist with retaining low-income couples and federal funding required that grantees provide at least 12 h of core content. We conducted a follow-up analysis to a randomized trial of RE with low-income couples. We focused on couples randomly assigned to the treatment (N = 579) and examined the influence of intervention hours on emotion regulation, dyadic coping, and individual distress at 1 and 6-month follow-up. Results of longitudinal actor-partner interdependence models indicated that women who completed the program reported fewer difficulties in emotion regulation at 6-month follow-up than women who attended fewer intervention hours. Additionally, men who completed reported more individual distress at 1-month follow-up than men who attended fewer hours. Given that most couples were Hispanic, we conducted an exploratory analysis to examine language as a covariate with mixed results.
(© 2023 The Authors. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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