Effect of fathers in Preemie Prep for Parents (P3) program on couple's preterm birth preparedness.

Autor: Basir MA; Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. Electronic address: mbasir@mcw.edu., McDonnell SM; Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA., Brazauskas R; Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA., Kim UO; Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA., Ahamed SI; Department of Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA., McIntosh JJ; Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA., Pizur-Barnekow K; Families First LLC, Eagle River, USA., Pitt MB; Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital, Minneapolis, USA., Kruper A; Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA., Leuthner SR; Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA., Flynn KE; Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Patient education and counseling [Patient Educ Couns] 2024 Dec 04; Vol. 132, pp. 108599. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Dec 04.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2024.108599
Abstrakt: Objective: Evaluate the effect of fathers' participation in the Preemie Prep for Parents (P3) program on maternal learning and fathers' preterm birth knowledge.
Methods: Mothers with preterm birth predisposing medical condition(s) enrolled with or without the baby's father and were randomized to the P3 intervention (text-messages linking to animated videos) or control (patient education webpages). Parent Prematurity Knowledge Questionnaire assessed knowledge, including unmarried fathers' legal neonatal decision-making ability.
Results: 104 mothers reported living with the baby's father; 50 participated with the father and 54 participated alone. In the P3 group, mothers participating with the father (n = 33) had greater knowledge than mothers participating alone (n = 21), 85 % correct responses vs. 76 %, p = 0.033. However, there was no difference in knowledge among the control mothers, 67 % vs. 60 %, p = 0.068. P3 fathers (n = 33) knowledge scores were not different than control fathers (n = 17), 77 % vs. 68 %, p= 0.054. Parents who viewed the video on fathers' rights (n = 58) were more likely than those who did not (n = 96) to know unmarried fathers' legal inability to decide neonatal treatments, 84 % vs. 41 %, p < 0.001.
Conclusions: Among opposite-sex cohabitating couples, fathers' participation in the P3 program enhanced maternal learning.
Practice Implications: The P3 program's potential to educate fathers may benefit high-risk pregnancies.
Clinical Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04093492, https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04093492.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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