Preventive interventions with parents of infants have tended to focus on mothers. Recent research focused on fathers suggests that their involvement in interventions might enhance effectiveness. One effective approach with mothers is the brief, home-based Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting (VIPP). This paper is a report of a pilot study of VIPP with fathers to assess its ...

Four hundred Danish emerging adults ages 17-29 were surveyed regarding their conceptions of adulthood and their self-assessments of their adult status. A majority of the 17-24-year-olds and nearly half the 25-29-year-olds viewed themselves as being adults in some ways but not others. Participants reported feeling most adult when with co-workers or romantic partners, and least adult with mothers...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to understand the mental health of single fathers relative to married fathers as the population of single fathers continues to increase and to use the resultant data for the establishment of public health policies. METHODS We evaluated the mental health of 58 single fathers and 256 married fathers living in an urban community in South Korea. Self-reported...

Background: Birth of premature infants and their admission in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are unexpected crises for the fathers. Therefore, raising the awareness of fathers regarding their experiences in such conditions could be helpful in the care of these neonates. The present study aimed to investigate the experiences of the fathers of the premature infants admitted in the NICU. ...

BACKGROUND Childhood mortality has remained a major challenge to public health amongst families in Nigeria and other developing countries. The menace of incessant childhood mortality has been a major concern and this calls for studies to generate new scientific evidence to determine its prevalence and explore predisposing factors associated with it in Nigeria. METHOD Data was obtained from Ni...

Emergency physicians (EPs) are always on the frontlines and many EPs thrive unpredictable. Despite this, COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to all EPs, including challenge of how prepare for cope with a pandemic. This subset analysis aimed evaluate impact specifically lives EP fathers. From May 2 through June 16, 2020, convenience sample physician fathers was surveyed their person...

BACKGROUND Receiving a diagnosis of a developmental disability in a child can be a crisis event for parents. Gender differences in parental roles are worth considering when exploring the impact of having a child with a disability. However, most studies on this topic have focused on the mother's experience, and little is known about what the father goes through as the parent of a child diagnosed...

Today’s father is not your father’s father. There are 70.1 million fathers in the United States, with 24.7 million part of married couples with children aged ,18 years. Although 40% of children are born to unmarried couples, father involvement in all families has never been higher. From 1965 to 2011, fathers have more than doubled their involvement, both in time spent with their children in chi...