Effects of a prenatal “Information and Insights about Infants” program on the knowledge base of first‐time low‐education fathers one month postnatally

Abstract

Pregnant women, in two clinics, one serving “low‐risk” and the other serving “high risk” pregnancies, helped to recruit their male partners into a prenatal program. The 67 men, first‐time fathers, all of low socio‐economic status, were randomly assigned either to a control group or to an experimental group. The intervention group received two intensive 1 1#sh2 hour sessions of information and insights about infants in a small group within a clinical setting. Father interviews and measures provided data on family parenting background; father attitudes towards infants; father perception of infants; father knowledge of when certain infant behaviors could be expected, couple dyadic adjustment, father social support, and father self‐image. Postnatally fathers were videotaped with their infants during a feeding interaction. During the training sessions, detailed information about the behavioral capacities of the unborn#shnewborn and of infants during the first months of life were provided. Post test knowledge of infant scores of the experimental group were significantly higher #opp = 0.0001#cp than those of the comparison group.

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