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      Piloting creative engagement strategies to explore themes of parenthood with fathers

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          Introduction

          The role of the arts in health is increasingly recognised, with participatory arts-based approaches facilitating public engagement. However, little is known about men's involvement in art-based participatory research. We aimed to investigate how men who are fathers may be engaged creatively to explore experiential aspects of fathering and parenthood.

          Methods

          Fathers collaborated with an artist, sharing individual perspectives around fatherhood by telephone and email, leading up to creative representations of fatherhood. Initial conversations were prompted by images from a 2020 exhibition catalogue entitled “Masculinities” (Barbican Centre, London) inviting participants' responses to the photographic curation. The catalogue served as an artistic reference to gauge a sense of participants' creative predispositions, as well as a foundation to facilitate spontaneous dialogue about personal meanings of fatherhood. Fathers' experiences of contemporary arts varied greatly; yet all fathers confidently shared responses ranging from photographers' representation of masculinity and fatherhood and perceptions of what was excluded or privileged within this very specific curation. These discussions further led to conversations around representations of fatherhood and highlighted particular areas of interest in terms of fathers' involvement in research and public engagement. The artist provided reflections to each participant by email with links to arts resources building on the initial conversations. Two further shorter sessions followed as fathers' key messages emerged, and the final forms of their own creative expressions crystallised.

          Results

          The final pieces included a musical composition around sharing vulnerability as a new father, a word cloud to represent gendered language of parenthood, an animated graphic image representing the bond between father and child, a combination of short poetic stanzas highlighting assumptions around fatherhood, an experiential photographic record of a father and a son in the early years, and a cartoon strip around emotional intelligence in parenting.

          Discussion

          Arts-based participatory engagement enabled to capture deep-rooted experiences of being a father in modern society, illuminating common cultural and intergenerational perspectives, while also tapping into unique individual experiences. The richness and diversity of these unique responses suggest that arts-based methodology can facilitate public engagement with men and lead to deep reflections on complex and socially constructed phenomena such as fathering and parenthood.

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          Cohort Profile: The ‘Children of the 90s’—the index offspring of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

          The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) is a transgenerational prospective observational study investigating influences on health and development across the life course. It considers multiple genetic, epigenetic, biological, psychological, social and other environmental exposures in relation to a similarly diverse range of health, social and developmental outcomes. Recruitment sought to enrol pregnant women in the Bristol area of the UK during 1990–92; this was extended to include additional children eligible using the original enrolment definition up to the age of 18 years. The children from 14 541 pregnancies were recruited in 1990–92, increasing to 15 247 pregnancies by the age of 18 years. This cohort profile describes the index children of these pregnancies. Follow-up includes 59 questionnaires (4 weeks–18 years of age) and 9 clinical assessment visits (7–17 years of age). The resource comprises a wide range of phenotypic and environmental measures in addition to biological samples, genetic (DNA on 11 343 children, genome-wide data on 8365 children, complete genome sequencing on 2000 children) and epigenetic (methylation sampling on 1000 children) information and linkage to health and administrative records. Data access is described in this article and is currently set up as a supported access resource. To date, over 700 peer-reviewed articles have been published using ALSPAC data.
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            Cohort Profile: The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: ALSPAC mothers cohort

            Summary The Avon Longitudinal Study of Children and Parents (ALSPAC) was established to understand how genetic and environmental characteristics influence health and development in parents and children. All pregnant women resident in a defined area in the South West of England, with an expected date of delivery between 1st April 1991 and 31st December 1992, were eligible and 13 761 women (contributing 13 867 pregnancies) were recruited. These women have been followed over the last 19–22 years and have completed up to 20 questionnaires, have had detailed data abstracted from their medical records and have information on any cancer diagnoses and deaths through record linkage. A follow-up assessment was completed 17–18 years postnatal at which anthropometry, blood pressure, fat, lean and bone mass and carotid intima media thickness were assessed, and a fasting blood sample taken. The second follow-up clinic, which additionally measures cognitive function, physical capability, physical activity (with accelerometer) and wrist bone architecture, is underway and two further assessments with similar measurements will take place over the next 5 years. There is a detailed biobank that includes DNA, with genome-wide data available on >10 000, stored serum and plasma taken repeatedly since pregnancy and other samples; a wide range of data on completed biospecimen assays are available. Details of how to access these data are provided in this cohort profile.
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              The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC): an update on the enrolled sample of index children in 2019

              The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) is a prospective population-based study. Initial recruitment of pregnant women took place in 1990-1992 and the health and development of the index children from these pregnancies and their family members have been followed ever since. The eligible sampling frame was constructed retrospectively using linked recruitment and health service records. Additional offspring that were eligible to enrol in the study have been welcomed through major recruitment drives at the ages of 7 and 18 years; and through opportunistic contacts since the age of 7. This data note provides a status update on the recruitment of the index children since the age of 7 years with a focus on enrolment since the age of 18, which has not been previously described. A total of 913 additional G1 (the cohort of index children) participants have been enrolled in the study since the age of 7 years with 195 of these joining since the age of 18. This additional enrolment provides a baseline sample of 14,901 G1 participants who were alive at 1 year of age.
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                Contributors
                Journal
                Front Child Adolesc Psychiatry
                Front Child Adolesc Psychiatry
                Front. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry
                Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                2813-4540
                11 January 2024
                2023
                : 2
                : 1204865
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ]Centre for Academic Mental Health, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol , Bristol, United Kingdom
                [ 2 ]Department of Child and Family Health, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King’s College London , London, United Kingdom
                [ 3 ]Centre for Academic Primary Care, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol , Bristol, United Kingdom
                [ 4 ]Independent Researcher , Bristol, United Kingdom
                [ 5 ]Business and Civic Engagement Department, University of Bristol , Bristol, United Kingdom
                [ 6 ]Translational Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol , Bristol, United Kingdom
                [ 7 ]National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London , London, United Kingdom
                Author notes

                Edited by: Fabrizio Stasolla, Giustino Fortunato University, Italy

                Reviewed by: Daniele Marcotulli, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy

                Eszter Szekely, McGill University, Canada

                [* ] Correspondence: Iryna Culpin iryna.culpin@ 123456kcl.ac.uk
                Article
                10.3389/frcha.2023.1204865
                11747913
                39839595
                b73d59f6-421c-4a83-b25d-1f23b72c9a9f
                © 2024 Culpin, Lamont-Robinson, Billington, James, Prewett, Ward, Bes Garcia and Biglino.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 12 April 2023
                : 18 December 2023
                Page count
                Figures: 5, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 43, Pages: 0, Words: 0
                Funding
                Funded by: UK Medical Research Council and Wellcome
                Award ID: 217065/Z/19/Z
                Funded by: Wellcome Trust Fellowship in Humanities and Social Science
                Award ID: 212664/Z/18/Z
                Funded by: University of Bristol
                The UK Medical Research Council and Wellcome (217065/Z/19/Z) and the University of Bristol provide core support for ALSPAC. A comprehensive list of grants funding is available on the ALSPAC website ( http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/external/documents/grant-acknowledgements.pdf). This publication is the work of the authors and Dr Culpin will serve as guarantors for the contents of this paper. This research was funded in whole by the Dr Culpin was funded by the Wellcome Trust Fellowship in Humanities and Social Science (212664/Z/18/Z) awarded to Dr Culpin. For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.
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                Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
                Original Research
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                Developmental Psychopathology and Mental Health

                creative healthcare,masculinity,fatherhood,parenthood,public engagement,participatory arts-based research,alspac

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