Comparative efficacy of the relationship checkup for same-gender couples.

Same-gender couples face unique sexual minority stressors that significantly impact individual and relationship health. This impact may be even greater among same-gender couples living in regions where there are pervasive social and legal biases that affect the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or questioning, intersex, asexual, two-spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) community (e.g.

Marriage checkup in integrated primary care: A randomized controlled trial with active-duty military couples.

Objective: This study assessed the efficacy of the marriage checkup, as adapted to integrated primary care settings and active-duty military couples, for improving relationship health and depressive symptoms.

Method: Married couples (N = 244, Mage = 32.4, 67.

The Before Baby Relationship Checkup: A Couples-Based Intervention to Reduce Relationship Risk Factors for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders.

Relationship conflict and lack of partner support are risk factors for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. An intervention to strengthen couples' relationships before birth may reduce relationship risk factors for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, though no research has explored this to date. The aims of this Stage 1 open-series non-experimental proof of concept study were to adapt the 'Marriage Checkup', an evidence-based intervention for relationship distress, as a preventative intervention for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and to assess its feasibility and acceptability.

Are marital relationships a barrier to health care utilization in Southern Appalachia?: A dyadic examination of the link between marital quality and individual health care usage.

Introduction: There are substantial health disparities in Appalachia partially due to the poor access and utilization of health care. Social support, especially in Appalachia, is consistently linked to the utilization of available health care. The present study aims to identify how on aspect of social support, relationship functioning, are associated with health care utilization for couples in Southern Appalachian.

Dyadic latent profile analyses and multilevel modeling to examine differential response to couple relationship education.

There are mixed evaluations of couple relationship education indicating that these types of interventions may be more or less effective depending on the couple type and demographic differences. However, this ambiguity requires more investigation with advanced statistical analyses that use a person-centered approach such as mixture modeling. We tested this hypothesis with a sample of different-sex couples ( = 455 couples) who participated in a brief in-home couple intervention.

Your place or mine?: Examining the accessibility and efficacy of a brief, home-based, couple intervention.

Interventions for couples that can be flexibly delivered (e.g., home) are gaining traction in the field of couple therapy, particularly for underserved couples who experience barriers to accessing traditional methods of care.

Randomized Controlled Trial of the Marriage Checkup: Depression Outcomes.

The association between relationship functioning and depressive symptoms is well established. This study examined the effects of the Marriage Checkup, a brief two-session Assessment and Feedback relationship intervention, on depressive symptoms. Two hundred and nine married couples participated in the Marriage Checkup and were randomized into Treatment (N = 108) and Waitlist-Control Conditions (N = 101).

An Implementation Study of Relationship Checkups as Home Visitations for Low-Income At-Risk Couples.

Couples with the greatest need for relationship health maintenance and intervention are often least able to afford and access it; therefore, accessible, affordable, effective, and brief interventions are needed to improve relationship health for those who need it most. Consequently, this paper examined whether a brief relationship intervention could be effectively implemented with a low-income, underserved population. All enrolled participants (N = 1,312) received the Relationship Checkup, which consists of an assessment and a feedback session delivered in their homes or at a local clinic at their request.

The heart of change: Acceptance and intimacy mediate treatment response in a brief couples intervention.

In this study, we examined mediators of a brief couples intervention. Intimate safety, acceptance, and activation were examined in 2 roles: their contribution to marital satisfaction gains in the first 2 weeks after treatment (contemporaneous effects), and how early changes in the mediators influenced longer term changes in marital satisfaction over 2 years of follow-up (lagged effects). Married couples (N = 215) were randomized to either an intervention group or a wait-list control group and followed for 2 years.

The Marriage Checkup: a randomized controlled trial of annual relationship health checkups.

Objective: This study assessed the efficacy of the Marriage Checkup (MC) for improving relationship health and intimacy.

Method: Cohabiting married couples (N = 215, Mage women = 44.5 years, men = 47 years, 93.