The comparative study of the impact of antenatal training care infants to fathers and couple on the fathers' participations. Objectives: Increasing number of working mothers and changes in viewpoints on fathers’ roles in families has increased fathers’ participations. Fathers’ participation is his broad, positive and active participation in different stages of children’s life. Wives possess the...

the comparative study of the impact of antenatal training care infants to fathers and couple on the fathers' participations. objectives: increasing number of working mothers and changes in viewpoints on fathers’ roles in families has increased fathers’ participations. fathers’ participation is his broad, positive and active participation in different stages of children’s life. wives posses...

constant breastfeeding that depends on the family support. fathers' involvement is as an important factor of successful breastfeeding. the aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of fathers' participation in constant breastfeeding in vali-e-asr hospital, tehran, iran. this interventional study was piloted on spouses of pregnant women participating in pregnancy courses. the case group co...

Traditionally child health care (CHC) has been an arena where mothers and nurses meet, but in recent years fathers are entering CHC with increasing frequency. The aim of this study was to describe nurses' experiences of fathers' participation in CHC. Nine Swedish nurses working in CHC were interviewed and asked to give a description of their experiences from meetings with fathers in CHC. Phenom...

BACKGROUND Early childhood interventions can have both immediate and long-term positive effects on cognitive, behavioural, health and education outcomes. Fathers are underrepresented in interventions focusing on the well-being of children. However, father participation may be critical for intervention effectiveness, especially for parenting interventions for child externalising problems. To dat...

The main research question of this article is whether and how predictors of fathers’ participation in childcare, defined as zero versus more than zero minutes of childcare, differ from predictors of participating fathers’ amount of time on childcare, measured as minutes on the survey day. The sample is drawn from the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS) and covers surveys from ten industrialised...

Constant breastfeeding that depends on the family support. Fathers' involvement is as an important factor of successful breastfeeding. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of fathers' participation in constant breastfeeding in Vali-E-Asr Hospital, Tehran, Iran. This interventional study was piloted on spouses of pregnant women participating in pregnancy courses. The case group co...

Fathers are an important, though often underrepresented, population in family interventions. Notably, the inclusion of ethnic minority fathers is particularly scarce. An understanding of factors that promote and hinder father participation may suggest strategies by which to increase fathers' presence in studies designed to engage the family unit. The current research examined Mexican origin (MO...

AIMS This paper is a report on a study analysing the effect of the umbilical cord cutting experience on fathers' emotional involvement with their infants. BACKGROUND Participation in childbirth offers an opportunity for father and mother to share the childbirth experience, so it is vital that midwives improve the fathers' participation in this event. DESIGN A quasi-experimental study with a...