Implementing a Text Messaging Intervention to Engage Fathers in Home Visiting.
Father involvement
Home visiting
Implementation process components
Maternal child health
Technology and families
Journal
Maternal and child health journal
ISSN: 1573-6628
Titre abrégé: Matern Child Health J
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9715672
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2023
Oct 2023
Historique:
accepted:
21
05
2023
medline:
25
9
2023
pubmed:
9
6
2023
entrez:
9
6
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This "From the Field" article reports on the Text4Dad text messaging intervention designed to engage fathers in home visiting. We introduce implementation process components from our pilot study across three Healthy Start home visitation sites. Three Fatherhood Community Health Workers (F-CHWs) and three fathers from one Text4Dad site were interviewed. Using content analysis, we examined the experiences of F-CHWs who implemented Text4Dad and program participants who used Text4Dad. Results highlighted five implementation process components related to: (1) F-CHWs' use of Text4Dad and enrolling fathers; (2) F-CHWs' interactions with fathers, perceptions of Text4Dad content, and integration of Text4Dad into home visits with fathers; (3) training and technical assistance for F-CHWs; (4) father program participants' acceptability and usability of Text4Dad; and (5) fathers' barriers to interactive use of Text4Dad. The F-CHWs were able to successfully enroll fathers into Text4Dad. F-CHWs and fathers found Text4Dad content acceptable to their circumstances. Text4Dad technology was viewed as usable, with some limitations. F-CHWs experienced challenges accessing the Text4Dad platform while on home visits. Results suggested that F-CHWs did not use Text4Dad to facilitate interaction, and accordingly, fathers had a lower than anticipated response rate to texts sent by their F-CHWs. We conclude with future directions for improving the implementation of text messaging programs in community-based fatherhood programs.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37294464
doi: 10.1007/s10995-023-03718-0
pii: 10.1007/s10995-023-03718-0
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1697-1704Subventions
Organisme : Fatherhood Research and Practice Network
ID : NA
Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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