Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden.
Scand J Caring Sci. 2021 Sep;35(3):844-852. doi: 10.1111/scs.12900. Epub 2020 Aug 16.
Fathers often feel secondary or invisible in traditional parent groups. Gender-specific parent groups, referred to as father groups, may be inclusive spaces for fathers to discuss their transition into parenthood.
To quantitatively assess fathers' perceptions and satisfaction of father groups in Sweden during the prenatal and postnatal periods.
A cross-sectional quantitative study design was used to report fathers' satisfaction of father groups, including how the groups impacted their personal outcomes, as well as their relationship with their partner and child. Further analyses were completed on if their depressive symptoms, via EPDS, and/or parity affected their satisfaction and personal outcomes.
Fathers were recruited through father group leaders, who then provided the researchers with their contact information. In total, 87 fathers were contacted via email and 67 fathers from two geographical areas, including urban and suburban settings, completed the survey.
Most fathers had a university education, a good household economy and were married/cohabiting, while almost 60% were first-time fathers and almost 25% had depressive symptoms. Overall, fathers were generally satisfied with both the prenatal and postnatal father groups, although fathers attended prenatal father groups to a lesser extent. The participants rated the father groups as moderately impacting their equality in the family, self-confidence, feelings of loneliness, social network and being able to express their own opinions, as well as positively affected their relationship with their partner and child, respectively. While there were no differences based on fathers' parity, those who self-estimated depressive symptoms were less satisfied and rated the father groups less impactfully. Father groups may help encourage fathers to meet policy goals, such as childrearing equality, and can be an important arena for screening fathers for depression.
在传统的家长群体中，父亲往往感到处于次要地位或被忽视。性别特定的家长群体，即父亲群体，可能是父亲们讨论过渡到为人父母的包容性空间。
定量评估瑞典父亲在产前和产后期间对父亲群体的看法和满意度。
采用横断面定量研究设计，报告父亲对父亲群体的满意度，包括群体如何影响他们的个人结果，以及他们与伴侣和孩子的关系。还进一步分析了他们的抑郁症状（通过 EPDS）和/或生育次数是否影响他们的满意度和个人结果。
通过父亲群体领袖招募父亲，然后领袖向研究人员提供他们的联系方式。总共通过电子邮件联系了 87 位父亲，来自两个地理区域（城市和郊区）的 67 位父亲完成了调查。
大多数父亲受过大学教育，家庭经济状况良好且已婚/同居，而近 60%是初为人父，近 25%有抑郁症状。总体而言，父亲们对产前和产后父亲群体普遍感到满意，尽管他们参加产前父亲群体的程度较低。参与者将父亲群体评为在家庭平等、自信、孤独感、社交网络和表达自己观点方面具有中等影响力，并且分别对他们与伴侣和孩子的关系产生了积极影响。虽然父亲的生育次数没有差异，但自我评估抑郁症状的父亲满意度较低，对父亲群体的评价也较低。父亲群体可能有助于鼓励父亲实现育儿平等等政策目标，并且可以成为筛查父亲抑郁的重要场所。
