Fathers’ Views and Experiences of Creating a Smoke-Free Home: A Scoping Review

Rachel O’Donnell, Kathryn Angus, Peter McCulloch, Amanda Amos, Lorraine Greaves and Sean Semple
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Rachel O’Donnell: Institute for Social Marketing, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
Kathryn Angus: Institute for Social Marketing, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
Peter McCulloch: Institute for Social Marketing, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
Amanda Amos: GRIT, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, Scotland, UK
Lorraine Greaves: Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, Vancouver, Canada & School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6R 1Z3, Canada
Sean Semple: Institute for Social Marketing, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 24, 1-18

Abstract: Enabling parents to create a smoke-free home is one of the key ways that children’s exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) can be reduced. Smoke-free home interventions have largely targeted mothers who smoke, and there is little understanding of the barriers and facilitators that fathers experience in creating a smoke-free home. Systematic searches combining terms for fathers, homes, and SHS exposure were run in April 2019 in Web of Science’s Citation Indices, PsycINFO, and PubMed for English-language studies published since 2008. The searches identified 980 records for screening, plus 66 records from other sources. Twelve studies reported in 13 papers were included in this scoping review. Eight of the studies were conducted in Asian countries (five in China, one in India, one in Japan, and one in Iran), three were conducted in Canada, and one in Turkey. Findings were extracted in verbatim text for thematic analysis. The review identified that attitudes and knowledge, cultural and social norms, gender power relations, and shifting perceptions and responsibilities related to fatherhood can impact on fathers’ views of their role in relation to creating and maintaining a smoke-free home. There were too few published studies that had assessed smoke-free home interventions with fathers to draw conclusions regarding effective approaches. Research is clearly needed to inform our understanding of fathers’ roles, successes and challenges in creating and maintaining a smoke-free home, so that father-inclusive rather than mother-led interventions can be developed to benefit entire households and improve gender equity as well as health.

Keywords: scoping review; barriers; facilitators; fathers; males; gender; smoking; smoke-free home; second-hand smoke (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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