Abstract

The period before from marriage is the one of the sensitive and critical periods in life and also is very influential period in preventing marital problems after marriage. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of premarital Counseling on shyness and expect from marriage among students of Medical Sciences, Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran. This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 30 single students of Medical Sciences in Torbat Heydariyeh Iran. The assessment tools was shyness and expect from marriage scales that were completed in the pre-test and post-test by participants. The intervention group participated in 8 sessions of premarital Counseling and the control group received no intervention. Data were analyzed using descriptive and Analytic statistics. The mean age of participants in control and intervention groups was 19.33 +/- 0.61 and 19.92 +/- 1.07 years, respectively. There was no significantly different between background variables of two groups (p>0.05). In the control group there was no significant difference in shyness and expect from marriage, before and after the study, but there was a significant difference between two mentioned variables in the intervention group (p<0.05). According to the results, it is suggested that premarital Counseling used for students before Choice of spouse until to reduce the disturbing factors in spouse selection process. Premarital Counseling improves shyness, cynical and idealistic expectations from marriage.