Leitão Catarina, Shumba Jefrey
Childhood Development Initiative, Dublin, Ireland.
Front Sociol. 2025 Apr 25;10:1489477. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1489477. eCollection 2025.
Providing parenting support in combination with Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) can positively impact children's and families' wellbeing. This study aimed to explore factors potentially affecting parents' engagement in a parenting support model in ECEC services and associated outcomes. This model involves a professional role dedicated to working with parents, the Parent Carer Facilitator (PCF).
Eight PCFs and seven managers of ECEC services in Ireland implementing this model were interviewed. Data were analysed through thematic analysis.
Four themes were generated: factors related to parents' engagement, approaches to promoting engagement and responsiveness to families' needs, implementation drivers and relevance of the model.
Findings indicated that a professional role dedicated to supporting parents within ECEC services, focusing on establishing trusting relationships and tailoring support according to families' needs, can foster parents' engagement in the support offered and positive outcomes regarding parenting and parents-ECEC service relationship.
将育儿支持与幼儿教育与保育(ECEC)相结合,能够对儿童和家庭的幸福产生积极影响。本研究旨在探讨可能影响家长参与ECEC服务中育儿支持模式的因素以及相关结果。该模式涉及一个专门与家长合作的专业角色,即家长照顾者促进者(PCF)。
对爱尔兰实施该模式的八名PCF和七名ECEC服务经理进行了访谈。通过主题分析对数据进行了分析。
产生了四个主题:与家长参与相关的因素、促进参与和回应家庭需求的方法、实施驱动因素以及该模式的相关性。
研究结果表明,在ECEC服务中设立一个专门支持家长的专业角色,专注于建立信任关系并根据家庭需求提供量身定制的支持,能够促进家长参与所提供的支持,并在育儿以及家长与ECEC服务关系方面产生积极成果。