[ effect of sex education on sexual intimacy of married women]

Introduction: Sexuality is fundamental to health, quality of life, and general well-being. Sexual intimacy have important role in creation of sexual satisfaction and consequently in marital satisfaction. The present study investigated the impact of sex education on sexual intimacy of married women

Methods: The research design is a quasi-experimental and type of pretest-posttest and follow-up with a control group. The study population all married women referred to a Hamyaran Salamat Ravan institute in Bojnurd city, about the summer of 2013 formed calls for participation in training sessions to marital relations were to improve their. The sample included 48 eligible women who were selected with convenience sampling and randomly exposure in experiment and control groups. The data gathering tools were researcher-made questioners of sexual intimacy that were made by participants at pre-test, post-test, and follow-up [two months] phases was completed. 6 sessions of two hour sexual education were implemented every week for test group but there was no intervention for control group. The data were analyzed by SPSSv.18 software and by covariance analysis method

Results: The results showed that sex education increases sexual intimacy of women experimental group in post-test [F=138.13, P<0.01] and follow-up [F=132.83, P<0.01], significantly

Conclusion: Sex education is effective in improvement of sexual intimacy and it results in satisfactory sexual relationship. We can use the sex education for enhancing couples' sexual relationships

[ effect of hope therapy on quality of life in multiple sclerosis patients]

Introduction: Multiple sclerosis is one of the most common chronic diseases of central nervous system that can change people's life especially in youth. It causes serious loss of quality of life and gradually increases people's inability. One of the successful measures of therapeutic interventions in chronic patients is quality of life. Therefore, the present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of hope therapy on quality of life in multiple sclerosis patients

Methods: In this study, one of the quasi- experimental designs called unequal control design was used. Sampling of this study was objective, voluntary and available. 24 subjects on voluntary basis in control and experimental groups were counted. Questionnaire of quality of life was used to collect data. After administering pre-test, experimental group participated in 8 sessions of 90 minutes of hope-therapy but control group received no interventions during the experiment. Both groups were finally post-tested. Data were analyzed with SPSS software and ANOVA test

Results: The results showed that after therapeutic sessions, quality of life in experimental group in comparison to control group found a significant difference, while, gender effect wasn't significant. The interactive effect of gender and intervention wasn't also significant. It means that behavioral change of subjects participating in post-test on quality of life in both groups didn't depend on their gender

Conclusion: Hope-therapy improved quality of life in multiple Sclerosis patients. Therefore, using therapeutic approach in multiple sclerosis patients and other patients with chronic diseases is recommended