Paternal well-being perception during childbirth: Experience of prepared Chilean fathers after a prenatal education intervention.
Claudia Uribe-Torres, Mónica Muñoz Serrano, Paulina Bravo Valenzuela and 3 others
PMID 39475390WHAT IT FOUND
Trained Chilean fathers described feeling calmer and more connected when staff welcomed them, explained procedures, and let them support their partner.
Some still felt insecure when instructions were rigid or contradictory.
Key findings
01Some fathers described satisfaction when they could understand and take part in birth procedures.
02Some fathers felt insecure and unable to take on their role freely when staff gave rigid or contradictory instructions.
03Some fathers described holding the baby after birth as turning worry into calm and commitment.
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What it does not show
Only eight fathers were interviewed, and four of twelve trained men did not take part. All fathers had received the prenatal education intervention, so they do not represent fathers without preparation. First-time and experienced fathers were analysed together. The analysis was a secondary re-reading of interviews collected for another purpose. There was no comparison group and no measured outcome, so the study cannot show what worked. Fathers were interviewed after birth, so their accounts may reflect memory and current feelings.
Declared interests
Funding was from the Vice-Rectory for Research of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, grant II180023. The supplied text gives no other conflicts-of-interest statement.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that prenatal education improves fathers' well-being. The intervention included focus groups and educational sessions, and the study describes fathers' accounts without a comparison group or measured outcomes.