The objective of this study was to examine the effects of happy Muslim family activities on a decrease in domestic violence against Thai-Muslim spouses in Satun province, Thailand. This experimental study was conducted with 40 married Thai Muslim couples in Satun province, with 20 couples in the experimental group, and the other 20 in the control group. | Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences 38 2017 150e155 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences journal homepage http locate kjss The effects of happy Muslim family activities on reduction of domestic violence against Thai-Muslim spouses in Satun province Kasetchai Laeheem Department of Educational Foundation Faculty of Liberal Arts Prince of Songkla University Songkhla 90110 Thailand a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history The objective of this study was to examine the effects of happy Muslim family activities on Received 16 November 2015 a decrease in domestic violence against Thai-Muslim spouses in Satun province Thailand. Received in revised form 29 April 2016 This experimental study was conducted with 40 married Thai Muslim couples in Satun Accepted 5 May 2016 province with 20 couples in the experimental group and the other 20 in the control Available online 18 April 2017 group. They were recruited using simple random sampling and randomized matching methods. The experimental group participated in happy Muslim family activities while the Keywords control group participated in normal community activities. The study employed a true domestic violence control group pretest and posttest design and the data-collecting instrument was a Muslim family screening questionnaire for domestic violence risk behaviors among Thai Muslim married Thai-Muslim spouses couples. The data were analyzed using the mean standard deviation and t-test. violence reduction The study found that before participation in the activities significantly more subjects in the experimental group who participated in happy Muslim family activities had violent behaviors against their spouses than those in the control group who participated in normal community activities. However after participating in the happy Muslim family activities those in the experimental group used significantly less domestic violence against their spouses when .
