The Effectiveness of Life Skills Intervention on Quality of Life of Women Headed-Household

Authors

• Yasser Rezapour Mirsaleh ¹
• Mohse Fallah ²
• Mostafa Saberi ³

¹ Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ardakan University:

² Master of Science in General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Yazd Branch

³ Master of Science in Clinical Psychology, Allame Tabatabaee University

Abstract

Women who are headed-household are in exposure of various psychological and social risk factors which influence their quality of life. The purpose of the present study was to investigate effect of Life Skills Intervention on quality of life of women headed-household and supported by Meybod welfare organization. This study was a semi experimental study with pretest posttest design and included control and study groups. The population of this study included all of women Headed-Household and supported by Meybod welfare organization. Between them, 30 women were selected by purposive sampling and randomly assigned in experimental and control group (15 subjects in each group). In experimental group, participants received 12 weekly 2 hour session life skills teachings and control group received no intervention. World health organization quality of life scale (WHOQoL) was completed by all the participants before and after the treatment program. Finally, data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) test. The results show that life skills teachings have a significant effectiveness in improvement of quality of life of experimental group participants. Also, four subscales of quality of life significantly improved. These results indicate that for improvement of quality of life of Women Headed-Household, life skills interventions should  used.

Keywords

• Quality of life
• Women Headed-Household
• life skills

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