Investigating the effect of couple-centered counseling by Gottman method on the intimacy of infertile couples referring to the infertility Ward of Fatemieh hospital, Hamadan, Iran in 2020: a quasi-experimental study

Table 5 Comparison between intra-group and intra-group marital intimacy of men before and after the intervention

Variable	intervenion group Mean (standard deviation)	control group Mean (Standard deviation)	Mean difference (CI 95%)	statistics	P-value*
Before intervention	78.93 (10.21)	77.03 (9.6)	2.55 (−7.02, 3.22)	−0.74	0.46
After the intervention	78.9 (9.79)	77.7 (9.42)	2.48 (−6.16, 3.76)	−0.48	0.63
Mean difference (CI 95%)	0.03 (−1.41, 1.47)	−0.66 (− 1.51, 0.17)
statistics	0.04	−1.61
P-value**	0.96	0.11

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