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The problem
Intervention: Inviting and enabling male partners to attend early pregnancy ultrasound examinations alongside their pregnant partners
Who it was tested with: 102 mother-partner pairs attending ultrasound examinations in Soweto, South Africa; mean partner age 35 years; only 32% living with pregnant partner.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"Pregnant women attending ultrasound examinations were invited to bring their partners with them. Both completed individual questionnaires, including the antenatal attachment scale. The results are based on a descriptive analysis of 102 mother-partner pairs." This is a cross-sectional descriptive study measuring immediate experiences and feelings of male partners attending ultrasound scans, without a comparison group or longitudinal follow-up.
The study is descriptive with no comparison group of men who did not attend scans, so causality cannot be established. Participants were self-selected volunteers, potentially biasing results towards more motivated or engaged partners. Long-term follow-up on sustained father involvement and child outcomes was not measured.
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claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 · synth-v1
