Resumen de Art therapy and marital satisfaction of children with autism spectrum disorder's parents
Aida Ravarian, Kaveh Moghaddam, Farhoud Saied Ershadi, Ali Zadeh, Parviz Sharifi Daramdi, Ali Afrooz
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the family-centered art therapy program in marital satisfaction of children with autism spectrum disorder's parents. In this applied experimental study the pre-test-posttest with follow-up and control group design was used. In this study, 20 children with autism spectrum disorder and their parents were selected by the available sampling method and then, they were randomly divided into the experimental and control groups. The family-centered art therapy program was applied just for the experimental group. And for collecting the data, the Afrooz Marital Satisfaction Scale was used at pre-test, post-test, and follow-up stages. Data were analyzed by the ANCOVA and the repeated measures; in addition, there was a significant difference between experimental and control groups. In conjunction with the marital Satisfaction among fathers and mother in the alpha level = 0.05, there is a significant difference between the experimental and control groups. But a repeated measures analysis did not show any significant difference. The findings of this study showed that the family-centered art therapy program cannot be effective in the marital satisfaction of the Children with autism spectrum disorder’s Mothers and Fathers in the long-term, but has been effective just in the short period.
