Nyström Kerstin, Ohrling Kerstin
Department of Health Science, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden.
J Telemed Telecare. 2008;14(2):71-4. doi: 10.1258/jtt.2007.070605.
A group of fathers met regularly during their child's first year through an e-meeting portal. (This was part of a larger study which was designed to describe mothers' and fathers' experiences of an intervention to provide parental support.) The technology allowed meetings by web-based videoconferencing, both one-to-one and in groups. The leader of the electronic encounters was a man with comprehensive experience in leading parental support groups with fathers. The fathers were interviewed using a narrative approach twice, once midway through the study and once at the end. Qualitative content analysis was applied to the interview data and three categories were identified: being unfamiliar and insecure talking about fatherhood, sharing experiences and being confirmed, and being supported and limited by the electronic encounters. Most fruitful and rewarding in the meetings was the fathers sharing other fathers' experiences. It was important to talk about things they did not talk to others about. Some fathers expressed a wish for more structure in the meetings. The fathers in this study expressed a wish to meet other fathers in a support group during the whole childhood period.
一群父亲在孩子出生后的第一年通过电子会议平台定期相聚。（这是一项更大规模研究的一部分，该研究旨在描述父母在接受一项提供育儿支持的干预措施过程中的经历。）这项技术允许通过网络视频会议进行一对一和小组会议。电子交流活动的负责人是一位在领导父亲育儿支持小组方面经验丰富的男性。研究过程中，对父亲们进行了两次叙事式访谈，一次在研究进行到一半时，一次在研究结束时。对访谈数据进行了定性内容分析，确定了三个类别：谈论为人父的经历时感到陌生和不安、分享经历并得到认可、电子交流带来支持的同时也存在局限。会议中最富有成效且有意义的是父亲们分享彼此的经历。谈论那些他们不会与他人谈论的事情很重要。一些父亲表示希望会议能更有条理。参与本研究的父亲们表达了在整个童年时期都希望在支持小组中与其他父亲相聚的愿望。
