Make room for daddy: enhancing paternal self-efficacy following preterm birth through Kangaroo Care
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background The premature birth of a child is a stressful experience for fathers and represents a threat to their parental self-efficacy. Aim This longitudinal study aimed to examine the contribution of fathers’ participation in Kangaroo Care (KC) for their preterm infant to the increase of their self-efficacy over time. Methods 42 fathers of premature infants (up to 33 weeks) were recruited from a Quebec NICU. Paternal self-efficacy was measured using the 'Parenting Sense of Competence Scale' on three occasions: before KC, at NICU discharge, and three months post-discharge. Results Path analysis showed that the father-to-mother KC frequency ratio in the NICU predicted greater paternal self-efficacy after hospitalization (controlling for baseline), and its persistence three months post-discharge. Conclusion Results highlight the importance of fathers' involvement with their preterm infant through KC to enhance their parental self-efficacy. Mothers and medical staff can facilitate this by encouraging fathers’ active care in the NICU.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".