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Fathers’ involvement in Swedish child health care: nurses’ attitudes and practice.
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  • Fathers’ involvement in Swedish child health care: nurses’ attitudes and practice.
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  • Objectives: To explore how Swedish child health nurses perceived working with fathers, and to what extent they detected and offered support to distressed fathers. Subjects and methods: A random sample of all 2580 nurses in Swedish Child Health Services (CHS), 499 nurses, were asked to complete a postal questionnaire. A response rate of 70% was achieved. Results: A ma-jority of the nurses found working with fathers important and rewarding. Fathers’ participation in CHS activities had increased over the years but many nurses wished for fathers to participate more. Questions reflecting attitudes to fathers as parents, however, revealed that around 50% of the nurses had an ambivalent attitude towards fathers’ innate caring capacities as compared to mothers’. Only one out of four nurses expressed that they attempted to in some way identify fa-thers that were distressed. None of these nurses used systematic methods or screening scales. Almost 90% of the nurses estimated that it only occasionally or practically never came to their at-tention that a father was distressed. Less than one out of five nurses had offered supportive listen-ing visits to distressed fathers in the previous year. The odds of giving supportive listening visits to fathers was three times greater for nurses who had regular supervision in their psychosocial work and six times greater for nurses with paediatric specialization. Conclusion: Despite having good intentions, many child health nurses in Sweden still have traditional views on mothers’ versus fa-thers’ innate caring capacities and do not detect and support distressed fathers to the same extent as they detect and support distressed mothers. Regular supervision and paediatric specialization seem to be important factors that promote nurses’ support to fathers. Adequate methods and rou-tines to increase support to fathers need to be developed.
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  • Wickberg, Birgitta, 1944-, Göteborgs universitet, Psykologiska institutionen Författare/medförfattare
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  • Poster presented to The Marcé Society Conference.
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