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General parental education in Sweden: participants and non-participants.
Full Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To study factors of importance for participation in parental education within routine child health care.
DESIGN:
All parents of children born during 1 year were invited by the district nurse to participate in parental education; their participation during the infant year was registered.
SETTING:
Catchment area of two health centres in Växjö, Sweden.
SUBJECTS:
221 infants and their parents.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:
Number of educational sessions for mothers and fathers.
RESULTS:
63% of mothers and 20% of fathers attended at least one session. These mothers attended a mean of 5.7 (SD 2.2) sessions and these fathers a mean of 2.8 (SD 2.3) sessions. Logistic regression analyses showed that the only variable of significance for participation was being a first-time parent (odds ratio 3.9 for the mothers and 3.7 for the fathers). Odds ratios above 2.0 (non-significant) were found for married mothers and Swedish mothers, as well as for Swedish fathers.
CONCLUSION:
It is still a considerable problem to get certain groups involved in routine parental education in Swedish child healthcare programmes.
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Author information
Author/s: Petersson, Christer (C); Petersson, Kerstin (K); Håkansson, Anders (A);
Affiliation: Kronoberg Unit for Research and Development, Växjö, Sweden.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article
Journal: Scandinavian journal of primary health care (Scand J Prim Health Care), published in Norway. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Mar; vol 21 (issue 1) : pp 43-6
Dates: Created 2003/04/29; Completed 2003/05/30; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12718460, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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