PhD, Professor, College of Education Research Center on Culture, Education, and Social Issues.
MAN, RN, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines.
J Nurs Res. 2018 Feb;26(1):36-43. doi: 10.1097/JNR.0000000000000201.
Although the increased interest in investigating the dynamics of fatherhood in developed nations has been documented in the literature, its collective meaning and implications in nursing remain largely unknown in the context of East Asia, especially in developing countries such as the Philippines.
Capitalizing on the unique power of metaphors to improve the understanding of complex and abstract ideas and to shape healthcare practices, this qualitative semiotic investigation intended to define the essence of fatherhood from the perspective of Filipino fathers.
This study focused on a group of 28 first-time and 22 second-time fathers who were recruited from the largest maternal and newborn tertiary government hospital in the Philippines. To capture the richness and thickness of fatherhood as a subjective human reality, doodling and elicitation interviews were employed to promote data triangulation. Furthermore, semiosis was used as the data analytic framework to better understand the ontology and epistemology of the elicited metaphors. In addition, a member-checking procedure was employed to validate the themes that emerged from the inductive approach.
This study provides a conceptualization of "The House of Fatherhood," which illustrates the uniqueness of the experience of fatherhood as identity defining, maturity enabling, and duality affirming.
CONCLUSIONS/IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: The pillars of fatherhood that were identified in this article provide a valuable framework for Filipino healthcare providers and program administrators in the field of maternal and child nursing to identify scaffolding measures and other support mechanisms to address the needs and concerns of Filipino fathers and their journey to fatherhood in a more effective and holistic way.
尽管文献中已有记载，发达国家对父职动态的研究兴趣日益浓厚，但在东亚背景下，尤其是在菲律宾等发展中国家，护理领域对其整体意义和影响仍知之甚少。
利用隐喻的独特力量来深化对复杂和抽象概念的理解，并塑造医疗保健实践，本定性符号学研究旨在从菲律宾父亲的角度定义父职的本质。
本研究聚焦于 28 名初为人父者和 22 名再为人父者，他们均来自菲律宾最大的母婴三级政府医院。为了捕捉父职作为一种主观人类现实的丰富性和深度，本研究采用涂鸦和启发式访谈来促进数据的三角验证。此外，符号学被用作数据分析框架，以更好地理解所引出隐喻的本体论和认识论。此外，还采用了成员核对程序来验证从归纳方法中得出的主题。
本研究提出了“父职之屋”的概念，该概念说明了父职体验的独特性，即身份定义、成熟促进和二元肯定。
结论/对实践的启示：本文确定的父职支柱为菲律宾母婴护理领域的医疗保健提供者和项目管理者提供了一个有价值的框架，以便更有效地、整体地识别支撑措施和其他支持机制，以满足菲律宾父亲及其为人父之旅的需求和关注点。
