Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway.
Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2021 Dec;16(1):1918887. doi: 10.1080/17482631.2021.1918887.
: The aim of this study is to describe new fathers' expectations of and experiences with municipal postnatal healthcare services.: A phenomenological reflective lifeworld research (RLR) approach has been used. Ten fathers were interviewed about their expectations of and experiences with municipal postnatal healthcare services, and the data were analysed to elucidate a meaning structure for the phenomenon.: The essential meaning of the phenomenon of fathers' expectations of and experiences with municipal postnatal health care described as . The essential meaning is further explicated through its four constituents: not knowing what to ask for, feeling excluded, seeking safety for the family and longing for care.: Entering the postnatal period with sparse knowledge about the child and family healthcare services available is difficult for the fathers who do not know what to ask for and what to expect. The fathers' feel excluded by the public health nurse, and the postnatal health care is seen as a mother-baby-public health nurse triad. The feeling of exclusion and inequality might be avoided if public health nurses focused both on mothers' and fathers' individual follow-up needs in the postnatal period and on seeing the newborn baby and the parents as a family unit.
: 本研究旨在描述新父亲对市产后保健服务的期望和体验。: 采用了现象学反思生活世界研究（RLR）方法。对 10 位父亲进行了关于他们对市产后保健服务的期望和体验的访谈，对数据进行了分析，以阐明该现象的意义结构。: 现象“父亲对市产后保健的期望和体验”的本质意义被描述为。这一本质意义通过其四个组成部分进一步阐述：不知道该问什么，感到被排斥，为家庭寻求安全，渴望关怀。: 进入产后阶段，父亲对可用的儿童和家庭保健服务知之甚少，不知道该问什么，也不知道该期待什么，这对他们来说很困难。父亲们感到被公共卫生护士排斥，产后保健被视为母婴公共卫生护士三人组。如果公共卫生护士在产后期间既关注母亲和父亲的个体随访需求，又将新生儿和父母视为一个家庭单位，那么这种排斥感和不平等感可能会避免。
