Effects of a Nurse-Led Transition to Fatherhood Program on Fathers' Involvement in Infant Care, Gender Perception, and Father-Infant Bonding

NCT ID: NCT07087483

Last Updated: 2025-07-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 80 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-08-30
• Study Completion Date: 2025-11-30

Brief Summary

Fatherhood transition programs led by nurses can positively influence fathers' involvement in infant care, gender roles, and father-infant bonding. These programs encourage fathers to take a more active role in both the prenatal and postnatal periods, enhancing their knowledge and skills related to infant care. Through these programs, fathers gain more information and practical abilities in caring for their babies.

The trainings provided by nurses cover essential care topics such as infant and maternal nutrition, sleep routines, diapering, burping, hygiene, and safety. This knowledge enables fathers to participate in infant care more effectively and safely.

Traditional gender roles often assume that infant care is primarily the mother's responsibility. However, nurse-led programs emphasize that fathers can and should take an active role in this process. This helps break down stereotypes related to gender roles and strengthens the father's role in childcare.

Active participation in infant care from an early stage contributes to the development of a strong emotional bond between father and baby. Quality time spent together, physical contact, and shared activities reinforce this bond. Research shows that a strong father-infant bond has positive effects on a child's emotional and social development.

In conclusion, nurse-led fatherhood transition programs significantly contribute to reshaping traditional gender roles and strengthening the emotional bond between fathers and their babies by increasing paternal involvement in infant care. Expanding such programs can lead to long-term positive outcomes for both fathers and children.

Conditions

Training Effectiveness; Fatherhood Transition Training for New Fathers

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

The fathers who receive training

We will provide a training to fathers how they can improve and support their fatherhood skills with their newborns.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

The fathers who receive training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

We will provide training to fathers on how they can improve and support their fatherhood skills with their newborns, and the control group will only receive the brochure about the basic fatherhood skills.

Fatherhood Skill Training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

FATHERHOOD TRANSITION TRAINING PROGRAM • Explanation of the goals and objectives of the training

• Introduction to the training program
• Newborn's physiological characteristics (weight, height, head circumference, fontanelles, body temperature, sleep, feeding, urination, meconium, genital organs, reflexes, sleeping position, safety, hygiene)
• Infant feeding and burping the baby
• Changing baby's clothes, giving a bath, diapering, and general care of the eyes, ears, mouth, umbilical cord, and skin
• Importance and benefits of breast milk
• Breastfeeding positions and techniques
• Methods of expressing, storing, and increasing breast milk
• Information about vaccinations, hearing and heel-prick screening, developmental hip dysplasia, and jaundice
• General information on gender roles
• Importance of father-infant bonding and its short- and long-term outcomes

The fathers who do not receive any training

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

The fathers who receive training

We will provide training to fathers on how they can improve and support their fatherhood skills with their newborns, and the control group will only receive the brochure about the basic fatherhood skills.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Fatherhood Skill Training

FATHERHOOD TRANSITION TRAINING PROGRAM • Explanation of the goals and objectives of the training

• Introduction to the training program
• Newborn's physiological characteristics (weight, height, head circumference, fontanelles, body temperature, sleep, feeding, urination, meconium, genital organs, reflexes, sleeping position, safety, hygiene)
• Infant feeding and burping the baby
• Changing baby's clothes, giving a bath, diapering, and general care of the eyes, ears, mouth, umbilical cord, and skin
• Importance and benefits of breast milk
• Breastfeeding positions and techniques
• Methods of expressing, storing, and increasing breast milk
• Information about vaccinations, hearing and heel-prick screening, developmental hip dysplasia, and jaundice
• General information on gender roles
• Importance of father-infant bonding and its short- and long-term outcomes

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• being a newborn father

Exclusion Criteria

• N/A

• Eligible Sex: MALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Akdeniz University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Sati Koldas Mir

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Central Contacts

Sati Koldas Mir, MSc

Role: CONTACT

satikoldasmir@gmail.com

+90 506 778 31 80

Other Identifiers

AU-SBF-SKM-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id