The study of couple psychotherapy on recovery quality of life in traumatic couple of infidelity in Tehran

The main purpose of this research was the effect of couple psychotherapy on quality of life recovery in traumatic couple of infidelity. This was a one-group pre-experimental research with pre-test and post-test. We selected 10 couples affected by infidelity. They attended individual psychotherapy sessions, after initial interview. There were two questionnaires consisting of a questionnaire of evaluation of infidelity Vaughan which was translated by the researchers. The second one was a quality of life questionnaire with 20 questions and 4 subscales. Reliability of the latter questionnaire was 0.78. To analyze the data, we applied descriptive and analytic statistics. Our results showed a significant difference between the respondents quality of life's before and after the intervention (P<0.001). It seems the psychotherapy sessions may improve the quality of life of the couples affected by marital infidelity.