The Father Friendly Initiative within Families: Using a logic model to develop program theory for a father support program

Gervais, Christine; Montigny, Francine de; Lacharité, Carl; Dubeau, Diane

doi:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2015.04.006

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“…Finally, lack of flexibility in the work setting with respect to desirable changes, as well as lack of organisational support, can hinder change and make it more difficult to implement new professional practices (Karlsson et al, ; Knapp‐Philo et al, ). For managers wishing to implement such a change process, it would be useful to design a logic model (Gervais et al, ) to consider these obstacles carefully and define ways to overcome them so that the changes can be sustainably maintained.…”

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“…The Father-Friendly Initiative within Families (FFIF) was created in 2010 with the objective of promoting fathers' involvement within families and communities, particularly by developing and integrating father-inclusive family intervention practices into existing services (Gervais, de Montigny, Lacharité, & Dubeau, 2015). The FFIF arose from the need to ensure that the promotion of father involvement is not limited to specific programmes aimed at fathers, but rather that it is part of a social movement and a transformation of existing care and services to make them more accessible and useful to fathers (Hoffman, 2009;Premberg, Hellström, & Berg, 2008).…”

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“…The FFIF was implemented in three regions of Quebec, from 2010–2017, to support health, social services, and community workers and their managers in developing or reinforcing father‐friendly services and environments. According to the programme theory (Gervais et al, ), expected outcomes of the FFIF include the development of positive attitudes among professionals towards fathers and professionals’ implementation of practices that support father involvement.…”

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Assessing the impacts of an interdisciplinary programme supporting father involvement on professionals’ practices with fathers: A qualitative study

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Gervais

Larivière‐Bastien

et al. 2020

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aims and objectives The study aimed to assess the impacts of the Father‐Friendly Initiative within Families (FFIF) programme, an interdisciplinary programme supporting father involvement, on health professionals’ practices with fathers. Background It is increasingly recognised that father involvement benefits children's cognitive and social development and contributes to both parents’ well‐being. Recent research has shown health professionals’ support to be a protective factor in father involvement. Research results were translated into practice through the implementation of a programme, the FFIF, aimed at empowering health professionals to support father involvement. Design The study employed a qualitative impact assessment approach based on semi‐structured interviews with 36 health professionals to assess the impacts of the FFIF on professionals’ practices with fathers. Methods A total of 36 health professionals were interviewed (13 nurses, 10 social workers, six community workers, three educators, two psychoeducators, one health manager, and one special education teacher). Interviews were transcribed, and a qualitative thematic analysis was carried out. This study is presented in line with COREQ’s checklist. Results Impacts of the FFIF on health professionals were seen in changes on three fronts: (a1) their beliefs; (b) their conception of their role; and (c) their interventions. These changes related to three themes: (a) difficulties experienced by fathers; (b) importance of father involvement; and (c) differences between fathers and mothers. The professionals, having realised the importance of their own role in improving the services offered to fathers, made concrete changes in their interventions, such as reaching out to fathers more effectively, encouraging their participation and treating them fairly and equitably. Conclusions After attending this interdisciplinary programme supporting father involvement, participating professionals adopted father‐friendly beliefs, redefined their conception of their role and modified their interventions. Relevance to clinical practice To provide family‐centred care, nurses and other health professionals need to adopt father‐inclusive practices.

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“…The adapted scale was validated as part of the evaluation of the Father Friendly Initiative within Families (FFIF) project, a large research project aimed at encouraging fathers' involvement in the early stages of their child's life (0-5 years) (de Montigny, Gervais, de Montigny, Lacharité, & Dubeau, 2015). It was approved by the Research Ethics Board of the university where the main author is affiliated.…”

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Adaptation of an existing measure to assess professionals’ attitudes regarding the importance of involving fathers in interventions with families

Gervais

Meunier

deMontigny

et al. 2018

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Adaptation of an existing measure to assess professionals' attitudes regarding the Adaptation of an existing measure to assess professionals' attitudes regarding the importance of involving fathers in interventions with families importance of involving fathers in interventions with families Adaptation d'une échelle afin de mesurer les attitudes des professionnels quant à Adaptation d'une échelle afin de mesurer les attitudes des professionnels quant à l'importance d'inclure les pères dans leurs interventions auprès des familles l'importance d'inclure les pères dans leurs interventions auprès des familles Abstract Introduction: Despite greater father participation in child care/rearing nowadays and the challenge of involving fathers in nursing interventions, no instrument exists to measure professional attitudes toward father involvement in family interventions. Objectives: The aim of this study was to adapt an existing measure that assesses nurse attitudes regarding the importance of including families in nursing care into a measure that assesses professionals' attitudes towards the importance of involving fathers in interventions with families. Method: The Professionals' Attitudes towards Father Involvement (PAFI) scale was adapted from the Families' Importance in Nursing Care -Nurse Attitudes (FINC--NA) scale. A total of 297 professionals in family care completed the 26 items of the PAFI. Results: Items analysis indicated three items had low variability and abnormal distribution. Principal component analysis was conducted with the 23 remaining items. Results revealed a solution with four factors reproducing the structure of the original scale: Father as conversational partner, Father as resource, Father as burden, and Father as own resource. Most items loaded on their original factor. The four subscales and the global scale showed good internal consistency. Discussion and conclusion: Even though further studies are needed, this adapted scale now enables researchers and practitioners to assess professionals' attitudes towards the importance of involving fathers in interventions with families.

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“…In the 1st stage of the program development, the program components were taken from the findings of a qualitative approach; i.e., grounded theory study. It was conducted through individual interviews with females attending for labor and giving birth, key executives and professional staff in the labor and delivery wards, different stakeholders, mothers and their partners, midwifery students, and residents of obstetrics to explore the barriers for such care program as well as findings from literature review (11).…”

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Validation of a Logic Model Program to Support Iranian Females During Labor: A Delphi Method

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Objectives: The development of comprehensive supporting programs for mothers during labor and childbirth based on their needs could play an important role in reducing elective cesarean section. The current study aimed at evaluating the logical model program to support mothers during labor and childbirth using a 3-round Delphi technique. Methods: The current study was a 3-round Delphi using 25 experts of different specialties. The program components were taken from the findings of a qualitative approach; i e, grounded theory study. In the next stage, the process of selecting expert panel members was carried out using the snowball method. They all had clinical experience in hospital and some had the experience of working in the Iranian ministry of health and Medical education. The 3rd stage of selecting expert groups was formally asking them for their willingness to join the panel and participate in the Delphi study. At this stage, the objective of the subject and the roles of experts as well as a brief explanation of the conducted activities were emailed to them. Results:The results of 3-round Delphi illustrated 6 domains in the logic model including preparation (10 sentences), equipment and facilities (3 sentences), education (8 sentences), process and activities (10 sentences),interventions (13 sentences), and assessment (2 sentences). The panelists approved 46 sentences out of original set of over 51 statements via Delphi technique. Conclusions: The current paper provided clear principles and standards regarding how to practically do a comprehensive supportive care during labor and delivery.Keywords: Delphi Technique, Labor Pain, Supporting Labor, Normal Delivery, Logic Model BackgroundChildbirth is an event with profound psychosocial and emotional impacts on mothers and its memory always remains in the minds (1-3). When the mothers face labor pain they experience negative and positive feelings that may cause hopelessness, fear, feeling of loneliness, and stress (4). To overcome these feelings in the labor and delivery room, it is important to provide support to the mothers based on their preferences and needs (2).On the other hand, childbirth is medicalized in many countries and most of the therapeutic and care plans in such countries take a biomedical approach (5, 6). Not paying enough attention to the mothers' needs and forgetting them in some cases due to adopting non-holistic approaches to the process of childbirth can increase the mothers' fear of delivery in such a way that cesarean section may be considered as the only way to escape from it (7,8). The results of a meta-analysis in Iran showed that Iranian females similar to other females worldwide mentioned fear as the main reason to choose cesarean section versus natural childbirth (7). Development and implementation of support programs based on a holistic approach and considering females' concerns and expectations during childbirth is a definite requirement, because the new health policy of the international community puts more emphasis on em...

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The Father Friendly Initiative within Families: Using a logic model to develop program theory for a father support program

Cited by 18 publications

References 39 publications

Assessing the impacts of an interdisciplinary programme supporting father involvement on professionals’ practices with fathers: A qualitative study

Assessing the impacts of an interdisciplinary programme supporting father involvement on professionals’ practices with fathers: A qualitative study

Adaptation of an existing measure to assess professionals’ attitudes regarding the importance of involving fathers in interventions with families

Validation of a Logic Model Program to Support Iranian Females During Labor: A Delphi Method

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