Francine De Montigny

Université du Québec en Outaouais · Département des sciences infirmières

This qualitative meta-synthesis was conducted with the aim to understand fathers’ experiences and involvement when their child has a chronic condition within family context. Family nurse researchers from five countries identified 19 studies through a systematic search. Inclusion criteria were: (a) fathers as primary informant; (b) children (<19 yea...

Review question (CRD42024596532): What are the qualitative evidences on the long-term experiences and repercussions of perinatal grief from the perspective of women who have lost their children?

Background Perinatal psychological distress adversely impacts the well-being and social adjustment of parents and their children. Expectant parents who have migrated may be at higher risk for perinatal psychological distress due to various migration-specific stressors and healthcare service barriers. Limited studies have examined the perceived dete...

Lay Summary Military life is known to challenge family member well-being, as well as parent-child and marital relationships. Although coparenting predicts parenting quality, parent-child and marital relationships, and family member well-being, research has rarely considered how it is challenged by military life and how parents overcome these challe...

Vivre la mort d’un proche est une situation fréquente et naturelle. Or, bien que cette réalité fasse partie intégrante de nos vies, elle suscite un processus de deuil qui peut devenir complexe pour de multiples raisons. Au-delà de sa complexité et sachant que les deuils ont des répercussions pouvant être majeures sur la santé et dans la vie d’une p...

Objective To identify in the literature and summarize the elements and characteristics of fatherhood involved during pregnancy. Method Scoping review that used PRISMA-ScR guide to report this review. Searches were carried out in PubMed, CINAHL, PsycInfo, LILACS and Scopus. Google search engines and public health agency websites assisted in searche...

Objective To identify in the literature and summarize the elements and characteristics of fatherhood involved during pregnancy. Method Scoping review that used PRISMA-ScR guide to report this review. Searches were carried out in PubMed, CINAHL, PsycInfo, LILACS and Scopus. Google search engines and public health agency websites assisted in searche...

Les infirmières sont régulièrement confrontées à la mort et à la détresse des familles au cours de leurs activités professionnelles. Elles accompagnent et soutiennent les proches dans l’épreuve du deuil. Or, comment surmontent-elles ces évènements? Quel est leur sentiment de compétence à soutenir les familles endeuillées? Peut-on leur donner davant...

Cadre de recherche : La récidive d’un cancer chez l’enfant nécessite de nouvelles significations et stratégies pour que la famille puisse faire face à cette phase. La manière dont les hommes gèrent les situations de maladie infantile est influencée par les normes sociales, les croyances et les valeurs culturelles. Ainsi, l’anthropologie médicale et...

Résumé La COVID-19 a entraîné des changements dans les services de santé périnataux. Une étude transversale mixte réalisée auprès de 58 femmes québécoises ayant vécu le décès de leur enfant en période périnatale durant la pandémie permet d’identifier les enjeux de ce parcours parental complexifié et de proposer une offre de soins et services sécuri...

La pandémie a affecté le personnel soignant. Pour mieux connaître leur expérience en contexte de deuil et de mort, des entretiens ont été réalisés auprès de 23 d’entre eux. Ils ont éprouvé beaucoup d’émotions et d’impuissance, mais ont aussi fait d’importantes prises de conscience. Leurs expériences ont permis de faire émerger différents thèmes : l...

Objetivo: sintetizar estudos qualitativos sobre as experiências de luto após um natimorto em pais que vivem na América Latina. Método: revisão sistemática qualitativa realizada em quatro bases de dados eletrônica e que utilizou o Guideline Enhancing Transparency in Reporting the Synthesis of Qualitative Research. A qualidade metodológica dos estudo...

Resumo Objetivos: descrever a identificação do óbito fetal durante a gestação em brasileiras e canadenses. Métodos: estudo clínico-qualitativo com mulheres que vivenciaram o desfecho do óbito fetal nas suas gestações, residentes em Maringá (Brasil) e participantes do Centre d’Intervention Familiale (Canadá). A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio...

Aim: Synthesize qualitative evidence examining how nurses' attitudes, beliefs, and sense of efficacy and the context surrounding birth facilitate or hinder family- centered nursing practice. Design: Thematic synthesis of qualitative studies. Methods: A literature search was conducted in CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, SCOPUS, SCIENCE DIRECT, REPÈRES, CA...

Objectives: to describe the identification of fetal death during pregnancy in Brazilian and Canadian women. Methods: clinical-qualitative study with women who experienced the outcome of fetal death in their pregnancies, living in Maringá (Brazil) and participating in the Center d’intervention familiale (Canada). Data collection was performed throug...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantine measures implemented have profoundly impacted parents and families. The stress and uncertainty generated by the COVID-19 virus, as well as the disruption of routines and social relationships, have weakened both individual and family health and functioning. Objective: The present research is pa...

Objective To provide five methodological and pragmatic tips for conducting remote qualitative data collection during the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method The tips presented in this article are drawn from insights of our own experiences as researchers conducting remote qualitative research and from the evidence from the literature on qualit...

In many countries, parents experiencing miscarriage seek treatment in the emergency department (ED). Parents frequently report dissatisfaction with ED care, while nurses report not knowing how to provide optimal care. This article describes the development of a situation-specific theory, Compassionate care for parents experiencing miscarriage in th...

Le 8 février dernier, deux jeunes enfants ont perdu la vie lors d’une tragédie dans une garderie de Laval. Par souci de bienveillance envers les familles endeuillées, nous souhaitons répondre à trois questions qui reviennent en boucle dans les médias : – Un deuil parental, est-ce différent d’un autre type de deuil ? – Comment les parents peuvent-i...

Background Across the world, a growing number of couples are directly or indirectly affected by infertility. Advances in assisted reproductive technologies are now enabling many of them to plan to have a child. As pregnancies resulting from assisted reproductive technologies are being experienced by a growing number of couples, it is important to b...

Support groups play an essential role in caring for parents experiencing perinatal death and bereavement. However, there is very little data on the effectiveness of these services on their well-being. To better understand the experience of bereaved parents using support group services, a qualitative systematic review was conducted using Thomas and...

Introduction Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted the provision of healthcare and efficiency of healthcare systems and is likely to have profound implications for pregnant and postpartum women and their families including those who experience the tragedy of stillbirth or neonatal death. This study aims to understand the psych...

Introduction: The most common manifestation of complicated grief comes with the death of a child. In this context, there is an urgent need for using scales aimed at parents in order to identify parental grief. Objective: To establish an equivalence from the Perinatal Grief Scale to the Parental Grief Scale after the loss of a child. Method: This...

Sommaire Plus de 20 % des enfants nés au Québec ont des parents provenant de l'étranger. Or, les écrits indiquent que l'immigration et la naissance d'un enfant sont des transitions qui peuvent fragiliser la relation conjugale. On connaît peu les changements dans la relation conjugale de couples qui expérimentent la naissance d'un enfant en contexte...

Public Significance Statement In the prenatal period, fathers’ biological essentialism attitudes (i.e., belief in maternal instinct) and perceived control over stress and work demands predict their intention to be involved in childcare. In turn, fathers’ prenatal intentions, mothers’ postnatal biological essentialism attitudes and perception of fat...

Objective: to analyze narratives about the experience of hope of families in the context of pediatric chronic illness. Method: a narrative research using Family Systems Nursing as a conceptual framework. Three families of children and adolescents diagnosed with complex chronic illness participated in this study, totaling 10 participants. Data co...

Dans un contexte mondial où les besoins populationnels en santé mentale sont en forte croissance, le recrutement de la relève infirmière dans ces milieux de soins est particulièrement problématique. En raison de leurs perspectives négatives des enjeux liés à la santé mentale, les étudiantes en soins infirmiers rejettent un tel cheminement de carriè...

Objective: to understand professional care for maternal grief in the puerperium of stillbirth. Methods: a clinical-qualitative study with all the women who had stillbirths living in Maringá (Brazil) and participating in the Center d’Études et de Recherche in Family Intervention at the University of Quebec in Outaouais in Gatineau (Canada). Semi-st...

Background: Perinatal loss affects many parents in the workforce. Yet, current knowledge about their workplace experience while facing this difficult event is sparse. Objectives: The goal of this study was to review and synthesize the extent of scientific literature on the specific experiences of workers coping with perinatal loss and the result...

Objective To describe the experience of nurses who support parents during perinatal death, particularly how perinatal death influences the nurse, how the nurse feels when caring for a suffering parent, and how the perinatal death contributes to the nurse’s understanding of self. Design Descriptive qualitative. Setting Four regions of Quebec, Cana...

This metasynthesis synthesized and interpreted qualitative research results on the experience of fathers who care for children with mental disorders. It followed the guidelines from the Enhancing Transparency in Reporting the Synthesis of Qualitative Research statement. A search was conducted in five databases. The Critical Appraisal Skills Program...

Miscarriage is the most common pregnancy-related complication and is frequently treated at the emergency department (ED). Parents have expressed dissatisfaction with the care they received at the ED and few interventions have been developed for improving miscarriage care. When planning an intervention, it is crucial to develop a program theory spec...

Introduction : Une grossesse sur cinq ne se rend pas à terme au Canada et ce type de perte est une expérience douloureuse pour les parents. Les chercheurs qui se sont intéressés au vécu de ces familles endeuillées décrivent des interventions à privilégier, mais en les généralisant à l’ensemble des populations touchées par ce phénomène. Or, l’expéri...

Immigration affects children and teenagers in particular – there are approximately ten million of them immigrating to new countries every year. The significant amount of stress endured during this transition both directly and indirectly influences the development and well-being of immigrant children. The child’s point of view on migration is, howev...

Research has demonstrated the short- and long-term impacts of maternal mental health and well-being on children's emotional and behavioral outcomes. It is thus important to better understand the antecedents of maternal depression and stress. The aim of this study was to determine whether the contribution of perceived paternal involvement to account...

Problem: The negative implications of perinatal death on mothers' mental health are documented, however little is known about their experience of hope. Background: Within the broader literature, hope has contributed to better mental health and bereavement adjustment and often bereaved mothers report the importance of hope for the grieving proces...

Objective: to examine personal and contextual protective and risk factors associated with women’s mental health after a spontaneous abortion. Method: a cross-sectional study was carried out where 231 women who had experienced spontaneous abortions in the past 4 years answered a self-reporting online questionnaire to assess their mental health (sym...

Les effets d’un décès périnatal ont été largement documentés, mais on a rarement proposé un regard englobant sur le décès périnatal comme point de jonction temporelle à partir duquel bifurquent le parcours de vie des personnes touchées. L’approche processuelle permet de complexifier l’examen de la fausse couche en introduisant une conception « épai...

This study aims to synthesize qualitative evidence about the bereavement experience of parents following the death of a child due to cancer. A qualitative metasynthesis was conducted from searching five databases. The search identified 650 articles that were independently assessed by two reviewers. Thirty-one articles were selected for full-text re...

Introduction: Miscarriage is common, occurring in nearly 20% of pregnancies. Most women experiencing symptoms such as bleeding or abdominal pain in early pregnancy consult emergency services, the front line of care. While research has shown the psychological and physical effects of miscarriage on women, less is known about how emergency services ar...

Dans toute population et région du globe, les besoins en santé mentale sont nombreux et grandissants. Par leur formation et leur vaste champ d’expertise, les infirmiers sont un levier important afin d’aborder cette problématique d’accessibilité dans ces milieux de soins. Notamment, la masse grandissante de nouveaux diplômés en sciences infirmières...

The loss of an infant during the perinatal period has been recognized as a complex and potentially traumatic life event and can have a significant impact on women’s mental health. However, often times, psychological aftercare is typically not offered, and manualized interventions are rarely used in clinical care practice and have seldom been evalua...

In Quebec, social changes have reshaped family roles and social expectations for fathers. This article examines Quebec fathers’ conceptions of their paternal role and their experience of paternal involvement. Twenty-six fathers (n = 26) participated in five group interviews. Thematic analysis of their discourse shows that their paternal experience...

Aims and objectives: The study aimed to assess the impacts of the Father-Friendly Initiative within Families (FFIF) program, an interdisciplinary program supporting father involvement, on health professionals' practices with fathers. Background: It is increasingly recognized that father involvement benefits children's cognitive and social develo...

This article documents the social representations of the paternity of men involved in the parental project of lesbian couples as known sperm donors, that is, as part of an agreement established outside the medically assisted reproduction system. Eleven Quebec donors were interviewed to gather their views on their role with children conceived as a r...

Study rationale: The impacts of health problems on individual and family functioning, as well as the influence of family on health, are well documented. However, health care and services in the West are mostly oriented towards individuals, and the needs of families often receive little consideration. The Family Support Service (FSS) was developed...

Introduction: Miscarriage is a common event, usually managed in the emergency department. Although studies have examined the impact of miscarriage on women's mental health and the effects of their dissatisfaction with health care received, little is known about the characteristics of the miscarriage experience in the emergency department. The obje...

This meta-synthesis aims to synthesize qualitative evidence from primary studies to better understand the experience of the spirituality of parents and its relationship to adapting following stillbirth. Five electronic databases were systematically searched and the quality of 21 eligible studies was critically appraised. A thematic synthesis reveal...

Aims and objectives This study aimed to understand how parents experienced miscarriage in an emergency department (ED) setting. Objectives were to identify parents’ needs, isolate factors that influenced their experience, and provide recommendations to improve care from the perspective of women, their partners, nurses, and nurse managers. Backgrou...

Le présent article consiste en une recension narrative des connaissances produites sur l’expérience des hommes de leur propre infertilité, afin de mieux cerner cet objet de recherche et d’identifier d’éventuelles avenues à explorer. Une recherche documentaire effectuée dans les bases de données CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycArticles, et SCOPUS a permis d’id...

Introduction. Despite greater father participation in child care/rearing nowadays and the challenge of involving fathers in nursing interventions, no instrument exists to measure professional attitudes toward father involvement in family interventions. Objectives. The aim of this study was to adapt an existing measure that assesses nurse attitudes...

Background: Prenatal education is a core component of perinatal care and services provided by health institutions. Whereas group prenatal education is the most common educational model, some health institutions have opted to implement online prenatal education to address accessibility issues as well as the evolving needs of future parents. Various...

Objective: To synthesize and interpret findings and conclusions of qualitative research addressing the experience of the father in the care of the child with cancer. Method: Meta-synthesis of 16 qualitative studies from six databases, analyzed through taxonomic analysis. Results: Child and adolescent cancer have several repercussions on the da...

Objective: identify fathers' perceptions of their role in a breastfeeding context. Setting: three different geographic areas (urban, semi-urban, and rural) of Quebec, a francophone province in Canada. Participants: 43 fathers whose children had been exclusively breastfed for a minimum of six months. Methods: a qualitative study using semi-st...

Depuis plus de 40 ans, les chercheurs portent une attention particulière au rôle des pères au sein des familles, en particulier sous l’angle de l’engagement paternel. Il est reconnu que l’engagement des pères contribue au développement cognitif et langagier de l’enfant, de même qu’à son développement social et affectif. L’engagement paternel contri...

Despite the importance of healthy settings for health promotion, little is known about how neighborhood characteristics affect men’s health. The present study aims to explore the associations between perceptions of home and workplace neighborhoods with diverse health outcomes, and to examine mediating mechanisms. A sample of 669 men members of labo...

The aim of this study was to describe the phenomenon of sperm donation offered in informal settings and, more specifically, by contacts through the Internet. It documented the perceptions, experiences, and practices of a sample of Canadian donors and explored their motivations for becoming involved in the family projects of others. Eight semistruct...

The objectives of this cross-sectional study were to determine whether depressive and perinatal grief symptoms vary according to time since miscarriage and to test whether childlessness and satisfaction with healthcare services influence symptom duration. A total of 245 women who had experienced a miscarriage answered a self-report questionnaire, i...

Determinants of father involvement and links with the theory of planned behavior: A methodical literature review A methodical literature review was conducted considering empirical research of the determinants of father involvement, guided by the theory of planned behavior (TPB; Ajzen, 1991). The TPB hypothesizes that a person’s attitudes, subjectiv...

Men are generally thought to be less inclined to take care of their health. To date, most studies about men's health have focused on deficits in self-care and difficulties in dealing with this sphere of their life. The present study reframes this perspective, using a salutogenic strengths-based approach and seeking to identify variables that influe...

Summary The purpose of this study was to (1) examine the association between weight status and men’s positive mental health, defined as the presence of symptoms of emotional, psychological, and social well-being, and (2) evaluate the moderating effect of marital status. A total of 645 men aged between 19 and 71 years self-reported their height and...

Aim: This Université du Quebec en Outaouais study examined professionals' attitudes towards fathers, their perceived self-efficacy when working with them and their perceptions of the importance of including fathers in family interventions. Methods: Professionals in Quebec, Canada, working in childcare fields such as education, social services, h...

The aim of this poster is to describe the dissemination of the IFNA Position Statement on Generalist Competencies for Family Nursing Practice, a position statement by International Family Nursing Association.

Objetivo: realizar a adaptação transcultural e evidências de validação da Perinatal Grief Scale para português do Brasil e francês do Canadá. Método: estudo metodológico, envolvendo aplicação da Perinatal Grief Scale a partir do conjunto de procedimentos de adaptação transcultural. A população foram todas as mulheres que tiveram óbito fetal no ano...

Background In Quebec (Canada), nearly 20,000 pregnancies end in miscarriage, and the majority of the miscarriages are dealt with in an emergency unit. Although there are studies documenting the effects of this type of grief on mental health, men’s experiences are much less discussed than those of women. Similarly, no study has evaluated best practi...

Despite the importance of healthy settings for health promotion, little is known about how neighborhood characteristics affect men’s health. The present study aims to explore the associations between perceptions of home and workplace neighborhoods with diverse health outcomes, and to examine mediating mechanisms. A sample of 669 men members of labo...

Objective: to carry out cross-cultural adaptation and validation of evidence Perinatal Grief Scale into Portuguese of Brazil and French of Canada languages. Method: a methodological study involving application of Perinatal Grief Scale from the set of cross-cultural adaptation procedures. The population was all women that had stillbirth in the year...

Le décès d'un enfant durant la grossesse ou peu de temps après la naissance pose plusieurs défis aux parents, à la fratrie et à la famille. Si l'expérience des femmes dans ce difficile contexte a été abondamment relatée, un certain silence entoure encore celle des hommes. Basé sur des témoignages de pères endeuillés, ce livre brise ce tabou. Souli...