The Impact of the New Families Home Visiting Program on Depressive Symptoms Among Norwegian Fathers Postpartum: A Nonrandomized Controlled Study.

Becoming a parent is a vulnerable life transition and may affect parents' mental health. Depressive symptoms may occur in fathers, as well as mothers, during pregnancy and the postpartum period. The health service is expected to have a family perspective, aiming to support both parents.

"Opening up a well of emotions": A qualitative study of men's emotional experiences in the transition to fatherhood.

Aim: To explore the emotional changes and reactions men experience in their transition to fatherhood.

Design: This study used a qualitative design.

Methods: Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 13 Norwegian fathers.

Instruments to Identify Symptoms of Paternal Depression During Pregnancy and the First Postpartum Year: A Systematic Scoping Review.

Men often experience depressive symptoms during the transition to parenthood, but there is a lack of synthesized knowledge of instruments used to identify such symptoms. The aim of this scoping review was to identify instruments used to measure symptoms of depressive symptoms among fathers in pregnancy and the postpartum period, and to describe the instruments' characteristics and measurement properties. We identified studies published since 1990 through searches in databases such as MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PsycINFO and in gray literature.

Norwegian fathers' experiences with a home visiting program.

Objective: To explore fathers' experiences with a Norwegian home visiting program during the prenatal period and the first-year postpartum.

Design: Qualitative design with interpretive description (ID) as the methodological approach.

Sample: Individual interviews with fathers (n = 13) who received home visits by a public health nurse (PHN) within the New Families home visiting program.

Mediating the interface between voluntariness and coercion: A qualitative study of learning disability nurses' work in medical examinations of people with intellectual disability.

Aims And Objectives: To gain knowledge of prevention and use of restraints in provision of medical care to people with intellectual disability. To this end, we explore how learning disability nurses in community services support the individual through medical examinations when facing resistance.

Background: Despite increased focus on limiting restraints, there is a lack of knowledge of how restraints are prevented and used in the delivery of physical health care to people with intellectual disability.