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Table 2.

Socio-demographic characteristics of participants in baseline

Variable		Experimental group		Control group		All	p value
Variable		N	%	N	%	N (%)	p value
Education	Diploma and under diploma	39	84.8	35	74.5	74 (79.6)	0.304*
Education	Academic	7	15.2	12	25.5	19 (20.4)	0.304*
Husband's education	Diploma and under diploma	31	66	33	70.2	64 (68.1)	0.825*
Husband's education	Academic	16	34	14	29.8	30 (31.9)	0.825*
Occupation	Housewife	42	89.4	34	72.3	76 (80.9)	0.065*
Occupation	Employee	5	10.6	13	27.7	18 (19.1)	0.065*
Husband's occupation	Employee	19	40.4	17	36.2	36 (38.3)	0.832*
Husband's occupation	Self- employee	28	48.3	30	63.8	58 (61.7)	0.832*
Meet the husband before the marriage	Yes	16	35.6	18	38.3	34 (37)	0.931*
Meet the husband before the marriage	No	29	64.4	29	61.7	58 (63)	0.931*
Length of marriage	< 20	36	76.6	32	69.6	68 (73.1)	0.490*
Length of marriage	> 20	11	23.4	14	30.4	25 (26.9)	0.490*
Married by family force	Yes	4	8.5	4	8.5	8 (8.5)	0.990*
Married by family force	No	43	91.5	43	91.5	86 (91.5)	0.990*
Your relationship with your spouse	Relative	20	42.6	16	34	36 (38.3)	0.525*
Your relationship with your spouse	Non-relative	27	57.4	31	66	58 (61.7)	0.525*
Engage in effective communication training courses	Yes	8	17	5	10.6	13 (13.8)	0.552*
Engage in effective communication training courses	No	39	83	42	89.4	81 (86.2)	0.552*
Marital satisfaction	Yes	41	89.1	44	93.6	85 (91.4)	0.486*
Marital satisfaction	No	5	10.9	3	6.4	8 (8.6)	0.486*
Number of children	Does not have	0	0	2	4.7	2 (2.3)	0.187*
	1–2	30	68.2	25	58.1	55 (63.2)
	3 and more	14	31.8	16	37.2	30 (34.5)
Age	Mean (SD)	36.72	11.60	36.06	10.37	36.39 (10.95)	0.772**

*Chi-square, **Independent Samples T-test