Fatherhood and men's participation in antenatal care in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Men's participation is imperative for improving antenatal care (ANC) access and mother and child health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Research looking at improving men's participation in ANC often focuses on their instrumental and psychosocial roles and on biomedical ANC systems. There is limited understanding of how context-specific cultural experiences of fatherhood influence men's participation in ANC within broader communal support networks and across different ANC systems in SSA. Against this background, and to understand how local communities in SSA conceive men's participation in ANC, a scoping review will be undertaken to synthesise existing literature around local cultural experiences of fatherhood and men's participation in ANC in rural settings in SS

SUBMITTER: Musiwa AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11404166 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature