Limitations of the research and future issues
It was unfortunate that the couples who participated in the pregnancy programme reported no effect on the satisfaction of their marital relationship or the development of intimacy between them.The following may have affected the results: (1) Since there are few general measurement tools that can be continued during pregnancy and after childbirth, a baseline measurement was not possible, therefore measurement was performed only after childbirth. (2) The use of convenience sampling. (3) The valid response rate was low because there was no cooperation between wives and husbands.Based on the data obtained in this study, in the future, we intend to: (1) make the programme applicable, not only to older primipara couples but also to all primipara couples and (2) improve the pregnancy programme, and continue the development of the postnatal programme to promote intimacy between married couples following childbirth and (3) secure sufficient participants and verify the effects through randomized controlled trials.