A Group Parenting Intervention for Depressed Fathers (LTP + Dads): A Feasibility Study from Pakistan

Husain, Muhammad Ishrat; Chaudhry, Imran B; Khoso, Ameer B; Wan, Ming Wai; Kiran, Tayyeba; Shiri, Tinevimbo; Chaudhry, Nasim; Mehmood, Nasir; Jafri, Syed Faisal; Naeem, Farooq; Husain, Nusrat

doi:10.3390/children8010026

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“…Husain et al 76 were delivered to fathers as the sole program participant without also engaging their partners (i.e., mothers). The remaining 15% of interventions were not systematic about fathers' participation and allowed the participation of either parent or any primary caregiver more broadly, which ultimately represented mostly mothers.…”

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“…In addition to universal approaches, more targeted program design and implementation is needed to support vulnerable groups of male caregivers, such as fathers with depression. 76 We identified "two-way" educational counseling, engagement of There are several limitations to this review. First, many programs were relatively small pilots delivered under controlled conditions, which limits the ability to make comparisons from different studies and generalize conclusions from the narrative synthesis.…”

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Implementation characteristics of father‐inclusive interventions in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review

Jeong

Sullivan²,

McCann

et al. 2022

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Although prior reviews have documented the effectiveness of engaging male caregivers in early childhood interventions, little is known about how these interventions have been designed and implemented to reach, engage, and support male caregivers in low-resource global settings. We searched five bibliographic databases for intervention studies that engaged male caregivers to improve nurturing care for children under 5 years of age in low-and middle-income countries. Forty-four articles met the inclusion criteria, which represented 33 interventions. Fathers specifically were the most common type of male caregivers targeted in these interventions. The majority of interventions invited fathers to participate alongside their female partners. Community-based peer-groups were the most common delivery model. Most interventions used the same program structure for fathers as applied to mothers, with few considering whether implementation adaptations were needed for men. Intervention curricula were multicomponent and largely targeted child nutrition, health, and couples' relationships. A minority of programs addressed parenting, psychosocial wellbeing, violence prevention, gender attitudes, or economic support. Behavior change techniques were limited to interactive counseling and peer learning. Male caregivers remain missing from caregiving interventions for young children. A greater focus on implementation research can inform better inclusion, engagement, and support for male caregivers in nurturing care interventions.

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confidence: 99%

Implementation characteristics of father‐inclusive interventions in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review

Jeong

Sullivan²,

McCann

et al. 2022

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…This study is among the first to examine paternal mental health outcomes associated with receipt of an intervention for fathers in the perinatal period. Moreover, FAB is the first intervention to our knowledge that explicitly focuses on paternal mental health that has been implemented in the United States (Lee et al, 2018), although researchers in Australia and Pakistan (Husain et al, 2021) have also developed mental health interventions for perinatal fathers. We recruited a sample of racially and ethnically diverse fathers, including non-biological partners or biological non-resident fathers, given the growing number of households with contemporary family structures like these (Child Trends, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Perinatal Mental Health and Well-being in Fathers

2022

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Frontiers is more than just an open-access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to realize our grand goals. Frontiers Journal SeriesThe Frontiers Journal Series is a multi-tier and interdisciplinary set of open-access, online journals, promising a paradigm shift from the current review, selection and dissemination processes in academic publishing. All Frontiers journals are driven by researchers for researchers; therefore, they constitute a service to the scholarly community. At the same time, the Frontiers Journal Series operates on a revolutionary invention, the tiered publishing system, initially addressing specific communities of scholars, and gradually climbing up to broader public understanding, thus serving the interests of the lay society, too. Dedication to QualityEach Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors and review editors, who include some of the world's best academicians. Research must be certified by peers before entering a stream of knowledge that may eventually reach the public -and shape society; therefore, Frontiers only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews. Frontiers revolutionizes research publishing by freely delivering the most outstanding research, evaluated with no bias from both the academic and social point of view. By applying the most advanced information technologies, Frontiers is catapulting scholarly publishing into a new generation.

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“…This study is among the first to examine paternal mental health outcomes associated with receipt of an intervention for fathers in the perinatal period. Moreover, FAB is the first intervention to our knowledge that explicitly focuses on paternal mental health that has been implemented in the United States (Lee et al, 2018), although researchers in Australia (Mihelic et al, 2018) and Pakistan (Husain et al, 2021) have also developed mental health interventions for perinatal fathers. We recruited a sample of racially and ethnically diverse fathers, including non-biological partners or biological non-resident fathers, given the growing number of households with contemporary family structures like these (Child Trends, 2018).…”

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Examining the Effectiveness of the Fathers and Babies Intervention: A Pilot Study

Tandon

Hamil²,

Gier³

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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There is increasing recognition of the importance of addressing the mental health of fathers, including during the perinatal period. Fathers exhibiting mental health concerns during the perinatal period are at heightened risk for future negative mental health outcomes and are less likely to engage in nurturing relationships with their children, leading to a sequalae of negative child outcomes during infancy and into adolescence. Although interventions have been developed for perinatal fathers, they typically do not focus directly on addressing paternal mental health. To fill this gap, we developed the Fathers and Babies intervention to be delivered to perinatal fathers whose partners (mothers) were enrolled in home visiting programs. A pre-post longitudinal study was conducted in which 30 father-mother dyads were recruited from home visiting programs. Fathers received the 12-session Fathers and Babies intervention while the mother concurrently received the Mothers and Babies intervention delivered to her by a home visitor. Baseline, 3- and 6-month self-report surveys were conducted with both fathers and mothers. Fathers and mothers had statistically significant decreases in perceived stress between baseline and both follow-up time points, with moderate effect sizes generated for both sexes. No statistically significant differences were found for depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, or perceived partner support, although we found small effects for reductions in depressive symptoms among fathers, as well as increases in the percentage of fathers and mothers who reported high levels of emotional and instrumental support post-intervention. While preliminary, these findings suggest the potential for Fathers and Babies to positively impact the mental health of fathers in the perinatal period, and also signal the viability of home visiting as a setting for delivering this intervention. Future research should employ a comparison group to generate stronger evidence of intervention effectiveness and include measurement of dyadic relationships and paternal parenting practices.

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A Group Parenting Intervention for Depressed Fathers (LTP + Dads): A Feasibility Study from Pakistan

Cited by 13 publications

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Implementation characteristics of father‐inclusive interventions in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review

Implementation characteristics of father‐inclusive interventions in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review

Perinatal Mental Health and Well-being in Fathers

Examining the Effectiveness of the Fathers and Babies Intervention: A Pilot Study

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