ABSTRACT
Objective:To systematically review the qualitative research on male participation in traumatic childbirth experience, and to provide reference for promoting and improving the physical and mental health and paternity experience of expectant fathers.Methods:Qualitative research on male participation in traumatic childbirth experience published in databases of PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Spring Link, the Cochrane Library, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), China Biomedical Literature Database (CBM) and Wanfang Database were searched from the establishment of the database to June 2022. The quality of literature was evaluated by the quality evaluation standard of Australian JBI Evidence-based Health Care Center, and the pooled integration method in Meta integration was used to integrate the results.Results:A total of 12 articles were included, and 51 main research results were extracted, which were further summarized into 10 categories, and 4 integrated results were formed: men had prominent negative emotional experience; men lack decision-making participation and communication with medical staff during traumatic childbirth; the impact of traumatic childbirth experience on men; perception and coping after traumatic childbirth.Conclusions:Medical staff should pay attention to the emotional experience of men participating in traumatic childbirth, meet their decision-making information needs in the process of accompanying delivery, identify negative emotions in time after delivery and provide help and support, strengthen the family-centered perinatal health service model, promote the physical and mental health of expectant fathers, and improve the family well-being.