Park Jisu, Lee Jaerim
Department of Child Development and Family Studies, College of Human Ecology, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-Ro Gwanak-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Research Institute of Human Ecology, College of Human Ecology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Prev Sci. 2025 Jan 6. doi: 10.1007/s11121-024-01761-z.
This study examined whether the Seoul Premarital Education Program (S-PEP) was effective when it was delivered via videoconferencing (VC) during the early COVID-19 period. S-PEP is a city-wide educational program designed to prevent marital distress by enhancing premarital readiness and relationship quality for couples. Because a randomized controlled trial was not realistic due to the pandemic, we recruited an intervention group and a no-intervention comparison group independently, who completed both the pre- and posttests. We then employed inverse probability of treatment weighting to derive two comparable groups. The weighted samples of 291 women and 228 men were analyzed separately using linear mixed models. The results showed that S-PEP via VC was effective in increasing levels of marital readiness for both women and men and in enhancing relationship confidence and satisfaction for women. Our findings suggest that VC can be a promising delivery strategy for curriculum-based group interventions for couples.
本研究探讨了在新冠疫情初期通过视频会议（VC）开展首尔婚前教育项目（S-PEP）时该项目是否有效。S-PEP是一项全市范围的教育项目，旨在通过提高夫妻的婚前准备程度和关系质量来预防婚姻困扰。由于疫情期间进行随机对照试验不现实，我们独立招募了一个干预组和一个无干预对照组，两组均完成了前后测。然后，我们采用治疗权重逆概率法得出两个可比组。分别使用线性混合模型对291名女性和228名男性的加权样本进行分析。结果表明，通过视频会议开展的S-PEP在提高男性和女性的婚姻准备程度以及增强女性的关系信心和满意度方面是有效的。我们的研究结果表明，视频会议对于基于课程的夫妻群体干预而言可能是一种很有前景的实施策略。
