University College South Denmark, Degnevej 16, 6705 Esbjerg Ø, Denmark; University of Southern Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, Winsløwparken 19, 5000 Odense, Denmark.
University of Southern Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, Winsløwparken 19, 5000 Odense, Denmark; Aarhus University Hospital, Unit for Perinatal Loss, Palle Juul-Jensens Blvd. 99, DK- 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark.
Women Birth. 2022 Nov;35(6):532-535. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2022.02.001. Epub 2022 Feb 11.
Poor mental health is considered a major health challenge globally, not least for young people, who will form families within forthcoming years. Research related to childbirth and parenthood transition has focused on how to promote good mental health by preventing mental illness.
We discuss how a salutogenetic approach to mental health in parenthood transition is beneficial, and specifically how the component of meaningfulness in Sense of Coherence (SoC), could be investigated to optimize good mental health during parenthood transition.
In more recent understandings of meaningfulness, ideas from existential philosophy and psychology have been included. We discuss how, from an existential psychological perspective, open and explorative questioning of life conditions and dilemmas may help to regain one's footing and get in touch with one's driving force - meaningfulness. Such questioning implies that someone, a professional or a friend, actively and relationally helps explore existential aspects of life.
We believe that investigating and asking research questions pointing at optimizing a salutogenetic perspective, specifically focusing on the component of meaningfulness and its embedded existential aspects of life, could lead to new knowledge on how to promote good mental health in maternity care.
心理健康不良被认为是全球范围内的主要健康挑战，尤其是对年轻人而言，他们将在未来几年组建家庭。与分娩和父母过渡相关的研究主要集中在如何通过预防精神疾病来促进心理健康。
我们讨论了在父母过渡中采用健康促进的心理方法的益处，特别是可以研究意义感作为健康感（SoC）的组成部分，如何在父母过渡期间优化良好的心理健康。
在对意义的更近期理解中，存在主义哲学和心理学的思想已被纳入其中。我们讨论了从存在主义心理学的角度来看，对生活条件和困境进行开放和探索性的质疑如何帮助重新获得立足点并与自己的动力——意义感联系起来。这种质疑意味着有人，无论是专业人士还是朋友，积极地、以关系为导向地帮助探索生活的存在方面。
我们相信，研究和提出指向健康促进观点的研究问题，特别是关注意义感及其所嵌入的生活存在方面，可以为如何在产妇保健中促进良好的心理健康提供新的知识。
