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Systematic Review of the Impact of Marriage and Relationship Programs
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Relationship Programs
U. S. Policy Response
Current Review
Funding
Past Reviews
Usefulness of Another Review?
Criteria for study inclusion
Search Strategy
Contacting authors of studies for missing data
Outcome of the Search
Program Type
Publication Year
Location
Program Intensity: Number and Length of Sessions
Total length of program (hours in each session times the number of sessions)
Number of Sessions
Average Session Length
Number of Weeks in Program
Program intensity: Number of Couples in Each Session Group
Sample Characteristics
Distress Level
Follow-up Assessment
Results Presented by Studies
Meta-analysis: Outcomes and Analysis Methods
Effect Size Creation
Interpreting the Effect Size Statistic
Weighting Strategy
Results
Relationship Satisfaction
Relationship Communication
Group differences
Program Type
Total hours in program
Number of sessions
Session length
Number of Weeks
Level of couple distress
Number of couples receiving treatment in each session
Attrition Rates
Summary of Meta-analytic Findings
Relationship Satisfaction
Relationship Communication
Quality Assessment
Random Assessment
Verifying random assignment
Attrition
Treatment of attrition
Conflict of interest
Data Collection
Results presentation
Allocation concealment
Selection bias
Sample sizes
Control group contamination
Generalizability
Income of the sample
Answering the policy question
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