Table 1.
Marital relationship enrichment program
| First session | |
| Objective: Familiarity with the members and expression of the logic and objectives of the training sessions | |
| Educational content | |
| Acquaintance with the participants | |
| Expression of goals | |
| Conclusion of a contract and getting a commitment for regular participation | |
| Second session | |
| Objective: Open cognitive interpretation training | |
| Educational content | |
| Studying the problem from the viewpoint of each infertile couple | |
| Making couples informed about kinds of irrational beliefs on infertility | |
| Training A-B-C principles in infertility Methods to deal with irrational beliefs on infertility | |
| Third session | |
| Objective: Training intimacy between couples | |
| Educational content | |
| Defining intimacy and its dimensions | |
| Training how to establish intimacy | |
| Practicing intimacy methods | |
| Feedback on the implementation of solutions | |
| Fourth session | |
| Objective: Training on the improvement of sexual relationship | |
| Educational content | |
| Expressing importance of sexual relationship | |
| Expressing cycle of sexual issues | |
| Factors hindering proper sexual relationship | |
| Diagnosis and intervention | |
| Training about wrong sexual myths | |
| Fifth session | |
| Objective: Evaluating conflict resolution methods | |
| Educational content | |
| Conceptual definition of marital conflict in infertility | |
| Understanding the normality of conflict between couples | |
| Extracting common ways of dealing with conflict among participants | |
| Training correct principles and practices of conflict resolution on infertility | |
| Practicing proper way of conflict resolution on infertility | |
| Sixth session | |
| Objective: Conflict resolution via teaching problem solving | |
| Educational content | |
| Effect of having self-attitude on the manner of infertility problem solving | |
| Identifying infertility problem solving process | |
| Steps of problem solving process | |
| Hindering factors of problem solving | |
| Seventh session | |
| Objective: Home management training | |
| Educational content | |
| Training how to deal with infertility problem | |
| Training how to deal with main families | |
| Training how to deal with financial problems of infertility | |
| Training how to deal with gender roles | |