The effects of Transition to Coparenting Program on coparenting perception

In this study, it was examined the effect of the Transition to Coparenting Program on parent candidates' coparenting relationship, romantic relationship quality, depression, and anxiety levels. Couples must be live together, and they must be expecting their first baby. BEGEP is an evidence-based intervention program aimed at couples in the transition period to parenthood to establish and develop a coparenting relationship. It consists of five sessions and each session takes time around 120-180 minutes. The research was carried out with a total of 35 couples, including 15 experiment and 20 control groups. Participants live in Aydın, Efeler. The mean age and duration of marriage of the participants were 30.60 and 2.58, respectively. The design of this study is true experimental design with experiment and control groups, pretest-posttest-follow up test. Repeated Measures of ANOVA was applied for the analysis of the data. Findings of the study obtained that BEGEP had a significant positive effect on the coparenting perception of couples, while there was no significant effect on the quality of romantic relationships, depression, and anxiety levels. As a result, the effectiveness of BEGEP was scientifically tested and it was found to have a positive effect on couples' coparenting.