Francine De Montigny

Université du Québec en Outaouais · Département des sciences infirmières

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...

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...

The present study uses the theoretical framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior to help explain early father involvement. Three hundred primiparous Canadian couples, recruited via prenatal classes, completed prenatal and postnatal questionnaires. Path analysis results highlight fathers’ attitudes regarding biological essentialism and beliefs abo...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Quels sont les stresseurs les plus intenses dans le travail des infirmières? Quelles sont les stratégies d’adaptation les plus fréquentes? Une étude se penche sur la relation entre la fréquence d’un facteur de stress et son intensité.

L’engouement de la recherche pour la paternité, observé depuis les années 80, a permis d’identifier une liste de variables considérées comme déterminant l’engagement paternel. Toutefois, peu d’efforts ont été faits pour comprendre le processus par lequel les hommes deviennent pères et comment ces différents facteurs interagissent pour mener aux com...

OBJECTIVE To verify the association between complicated grief and sociodemographic, reproductive, mental, marital satisfaction, and professional support characteristics in women after stillbirth. METHOD Cross-sectional study with 26 women who had stillbirth in 2013, living in the city of Maringá, Brazil, and eight women who attended the Centre d'É...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between spousal positive social control (SPSC) and men’s health behaviors. This study also tested the mediating effect of health self-efficacy in this relationship and the moderating effects of age and relationship satisfaction (RS) in the association between SPSC and health behaviors and se...

Research has demonstrated beneficial effects on children’s development of both breastfeeding and fathers’ involvement. Evidence has also shown that breastfeeding could influence paternal behaviors. Since there is little data available on paternal representations of breastfeeding and on its effects on paternal involvement, the aim of the present stu...

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...

Rare diseases cause strong impact in families and generate needs beyond those associated with the most frequent diseases. Some of these needs are the inclusion of new responsibilities and the relationship with the healthcare and social services. This study is aimed at identifying the priority needs of families of rare disease patients as perceived...

Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between spousal positive social control (SPSC) and men’s health behaviors. This study also tested the mediating effect of health self-efficacy in this relationship and the moderating effects of age and relationship satisfaction (RS) in the association between SPSC and health behavio...

Las enfermedades raras provocan fuerte impacto en las familias, generando necesidades más allá de los relacionados con las enfermedades más frecuentes. La incorporación de nuevas responsabilidades y la relación con los servicios sociales y de salud, son algunas de ellas. Este estudio tiene como objetivo identificar las necesidades prioritarias de l...

Cet article presente les resultats de recherche visant a mieux comprendre le point de vue et l’experience d’hommes agissant a titre de donneurs de sperme dans la concretisation de projets parentaux d’autrui. Notre demonstration s’appuie sur des donnees qualitatives tirees de deux corpus d’entrevues realisees aupres d’hommes ayant offert leur sperme...

Many studies show that men make specific lifestyle choices. However, regarding high blood pressure (HBP), guidelines are without distinction for gender. The purpose of this project is to explore the men's experience with HBP. Using a phenomenological design, semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten men living with HBP to explore beliefs a...

Ce sondage constitue la troisième étape d’un programme de recherches échelonné sur trois ans portant sur les perceptions des hommes québécois de leurs besoins psychosociaux et de santé ainsi que de leur rapport aux services. Le programme global comporte trois axes : 1) les problèmes de santé et de bien‐être des hommes; 2) le recours aux services et...

Objective To characterize the diagnostic and therapeutic journey of families of people with rare diseases within the network of Brazilian public services. Methods This was a qualitative research project. The bio-ecological theory of human development, by Urie Bronfenbrenner, was used to understand the data. The research instrument was a semi-struc...