- Title
- Enhancing engagement of fathers in web-based preventive parenting programs for adolescent mental health: A discrete choice experiment
- Creator
- Hansen, Ashlyn; Brown, Scott D.; Yap, Marie B. H.
- Relation
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Vol. 18, Issue 23, no. 12340
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312340
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Few fathers enrol in web-based preventive parenting programs for adolescent mental health, despite the evidence of the benefits associated with their participation. To inform the development of father-inclusive programs, this study used a discrete choice experiment (DCE) design to determine (a) the relative influence of number of sessions, program benefits, program participants, and user control over program content on fathers’ preferences for web-based preventive parenting programs; and (b) whether selected father characteristics were associated with their preferences. One hundred and seventy-one fathers completed the DCE survey, which comprised 25 choices between hypothetical programs. Programs that included the participant’s adolescent child (z = 10.06, p < 0.0001), or parenting partner (z = 7.30, p < 0.001) were preferred over those designed for fathers only. Participants also preferred program content that was recommended for them by experts (z = −4.31, p < 0.0001) and programs with fewer sessions (z = −2.94, p < 0.01). Program benefits did not predict fathers’ choice of program. Prior use of a parenting program, level of education, perceived role of parenting for adolescent mental health, and being part of a dual-working family were associated with preferences. Application of these findings may improve paternal enrolment in web-based preventive parenting programs.
- Subject
- adolescent; fathers; mental health; parenting; prevention; discrete choice experiment
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1437456
- Identifier
- uon:40356
- Identifier
- ISSN:1661-7827
- Rights
- © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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