The Effect of Baby Care Training Given to Fathers After Birth

The Effect of Baby Care Training Given to Fathers After Birth on Paternal Attachment, Maternal Postpartum Depression and Quality of Life

The aim of this study is to provide infant care training to fathers and to measure father-infant attachment and maternal postpartum depression and quality of life.

Objective: The aim of this study is to provide infant care training to fathers and to measure father-infant attachment and maternal postpartum depression and quality of life.

Design: The data for the study were collected using the introductory information form (IIF) and the father-infant attachment scale (FIAS) for fathers, Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale and Postpartum Quality of Life Scale for mothers.

Participants and setting: A total of 64 fathers and 64 mothers, including 32 in the intervention group and 32in the control group who met the inclusion criteria of the study were included randomly.

Inclusion Criteria:

• The mother and father are over 18 years old,
• Parents becoming parents for the first time,
• The newborn is healthy, born at term, with the mother and father,
• Parents' knowledge of Turkish,
• Mothers who accepted to participate in the study and received baby care training by participating in the pregnant class,
• Parents' willingness to participate in the research.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Having a baby born as a result of a risky pregnancy,
• The newborn is in intensive care,
• Presence of diagnosed psychiatric disease in the mother and father.