Project Type(s):
Clinical Research, Implementation Science

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One in ten fathers experience severe mental health challenges due to the stressors of parenting. Fathers’ mental health plays a pivotal role in early child social-emotional development with impact throughout a child’s lifespan. Parenting interventions that support effective parenting knowledge, skills, and behaviors improve parent-child mental health outcomes, including in low- and middle-income settings. Yet in-person mental health services for men are scarce and are stigmatizing and logistically challenging for fathers to attend. We propose to develop and pilot test a novel mHealth parenting intervention specifically designed for Kenyan fathers through a user-centered co-design approach.

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