First time experience of being a father
Keywords:
new fathers, paternal, fatherhood, anxiety, depression, stress, experienceAbstract
Background: Men have various emotional challenge during transition period of being a father, but they do not care since they feel worried that it will disturb the professional support to their partner, or it will disturb their partner. There is a scarcity of information about the men’s experience about their mental perinatal health, and the understanding about the best way to resolve father’s mental health and psychological well-being. Method: the method used in this research is scoping review. Scoping review aims to map the documents that is the basic of research and the source of evidence that is available. The scoping review in this research was made by the support of PEOS framework. In the searching of evidence, the researcher used 3 databases such as PubMed, Science Direct and Wiley. The article selection based on Prism Flowchart and Critical Appraisal. Result: based on the article selected, it obtains 8 articles which included in Developed Countries. It consists of 1 article of mixed method research design, 5 article of qualitative research design and 2 article of quantitative research design.
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