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Decreasing Divorce in Army Couples: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial using PREP for Strong Bonds.

Scott M Stanley¹, Elizabeth S Allen, Howard J Markman, Galena K Rhoades, Donnella L Prentice.

Abstract

Findings from a large, randomized controlled trial of couple education are presented in this brief report. Married Army couples were assigned to either PREP for Strong Bonds (n = 248) delivered by Army chaplains or to a no-treatment control group (n = 228). One year after the intervention, couples who received PREP for Strong Bonds had 1/3 the rate of divorce of the control group. Specifically, 6.20% of the control group divorced while 2.03% of the intervention group divorced. These findings suggest that couple education can reduce the risk of divorce, at least in the short run with military couples.

Entities: Chemical Disease Species

Year: 2010 PMID： 20634994 PMCID： PMC2902195 DOI： 10.1080/15332691003694901

Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Couple Relatsh Ther ISSN： 1533-2683

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Decreasing Divorce in Army Couples: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial using PREP for Strong Bonds.

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5. Premarital education, marital quality, and marital stability: findings from a large, random household survey.

Review 6. Investigating the effects of marriage and relationship education on couples' communication skills: a meta-analytic study.

7. Strengthening couples' relationships with education: social policy and public health perspectives.

8. Marital satisfaction before and after deployments associated with the Global War on Terror.

9. Does marriage and relationship education work? A meta-analytic study.

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