Michael Wells (0000-0001-7453-306X)

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My research focuses on the health promotion and prevention of mental illness in expectant and new parents and the supports they need and receive from reproductive and child health professionals, such as midwives and nurses. I evaluate community-based interventions on expectant and new parents, including the father/non-birthing parent visit when the infant is 3-5 months old. Most research takes place in a Swedish context, although I work on quality improvement and capacity building within several sub-Saharan African countries regarding midwifery-led care.

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Karolinska Institutet: Stockholm, SE

(Department of Women's and Children's Health)

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Michael Wells

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7453-306X

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Karolinska Institutet: Stockholm, SE

Karolinska Institutet: Stockholm, SE

Karolinska Institutet: Stockholm, Stockholm, SE

Uppsala Universitet: Uppsala, SE

Uppsala Universitet: Uppsala, SE

Uppsala Universitet: Uppsala, SE

Family Development Services: A Head Start Company: Indianapolis, Indiana, US

University of Indianapolis: Indianapolis, IN, US

Uppsala Universitet: Uppsala, SE

Uppsala Universitet: Uppsala, SE

Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, US

Ohio Department of Education Early Learning Initiative: OH, OH, US

AmeriChoice: Indianapolis, Indiana, US

YMCA : Indianapolis, Indiana, US

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Uppsala Universitet: Uppsala, SE

Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, US

University of Indianapolis: Indianapolis, IN, US

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Travel Grant

FORTE Travel Grant

Works (50 of 72)

Breastfeeding interventions for preventing postpartum depression.

Improving apgar scores and reducing perineal injuries through midwife-led quality improvements: an observational study in Uganda.

From Fathers to Fathers-Telephone-Based Peer Support: A Feasibility Study

LBTQ parents' needs for support postpartum following a complicated birth: A matter of reproductive justice.

Support Needs, Barriers, and Facilitators for Fathers With Fear of Childbirth in Sweden: A Mixed-Method Study.

Emerging Adults’ Perspectives of Received Youth Worker Support and Their Personal and Structural Barriers to Find Employment or Further Education: A Qualitative Study From Sweden

Midwife-led quality improvement: Increasing the use of evidence-based birth practices in Uganda.

The understanding of dynamic birth positions for women in labor and childbirth – A hybrid concept analysis

Cluster Analysis of Fear of Childbirth, Anxiety, Depression, and Childbirth Self-Efficacy.

Partner and professional support are associated with father-infant bonding: A cross-sectional analysis of mothers, midwives, and child health nurses’ influence on primiparous and multiparous fathers of infants in Sweden

Measurement invariance of the Coparenting Relationship Scale (CRS) across 10 countries.

Preferences of support and barriers and facilitators to help-seeking in pregnant women with severe fear of childbirth in Sweden: a mixed-method study.

Putting co-creation into practice: lessons learned from developing a midwife-led quality improvement intervention

Costs and intermediate outcomes for the implementation of evidence-based practices of midwifery under a MIDWIZE framework in an urban health facility in Nairobi, Kenya

Midwives and child health nurses’ support is associated with positive coparenting for fathers of infants: A cross‐sectional analysis

Paternal postpartum depression, coparenting, and father-infant bonding: Testing two mediated models using structural equation modeling.

Bidirectional associations between paternal postpartum depression symptoms and coparenting: A cross-lagged panel model of fathers of infants and toddlers.

Parenthood and lower risk of suicide in women and men: the total Swedish population followed across adulthood.

The Swedish father/non-birthing parent visit: evaluating implementation fidelity among child health nurses one year after voluntary implementation.

Corrigendum to "Implementing an internet-based capacity building program for interdisciplinary midwifery-led teams in Ethiopia, Kenya Malawi and Somalia" [Sex. Reprod. Healthcare 30 (2021) 100670].

A qualitative study of Swedish fathers’ experiences of becoming a father during the COVID-19 pandemic

Family life starts at home: Fathers’ experiences of a newly implemented Swedish home-based postnatal care model – an interview study

Implementing an internet-based capacity building program for interdisciplinary midwifery-lead teams in Ethiopia, Kenya Malawi and Somalia

A dreaded delight: A longitudinal qualitative interview study of paternal childbirth fear during the transition to fatherhood

The Swedish Brief Coparenting Relationship Scale: Psychometrics and Concurrent Validity Among Primiparous and Multiparous Fathers

Two screening instruments for collecting alcohol-related information from expectant mothers and fathers: Testing the reliability of the Parent Alcohol Screening Questionnaire and the Social Support for an Alcohol-Free Pregnancy Questionnaire.

Primary care physicians' views of standardised care pathways in cancer care: A Swedish qualitative study on implementation experiences.

Corrigendum to Paternal postnatal depression and received midwife, child health nurse, and maternal support: A cross-sectional analysis of primiparous and multiparous fathers. Journal of Affective Disorders, 280 (2021) 127-135.

Paternal postnatal depression and received midwife, child health nurse, and maternal support: A cross-sectional analysis of primiparous and multiparous fathers.

Parenthood is associated with lower suicide risk: a register-based cohort study of 1.5 million Swedes.

Associations Between Parent–Teacher Cocaring Relationships, Parent–Child Relationships, and Young Children’s Social Emotional Development

Impacted family equality, self-confidence and loneliness: a cross-sectional study of first-time and multi-time fathers' satisfaction with prenatal and postnatal father groups in Sweden.

Facilitators and barriers when implementing a new clinical visit for fathers at Stockholm County child health centres: A qualitative study of nurse-managers at top-performing centres.

A qualitative study of midwives’ challenges to support transmen during childbirth: A short report

Mothers´ experiences in relation to a new Swedish postnatal home-based model of midwifery care-A cross-sectional study.

LGBTQ competence wanted: LGBTQ parents' experiences of reproductive health care in Sweden.

A literature review and meta-ethnography of fathers' psychological health and received social support during unpredictable complicated childbirths.

An Organizational-Level Analysis of Early Childhood Teachers’ Job Attitudes: Workplace Satisfaction Affects Early Head Start and Head Start Teacher Turnover

Screening fathers for postpartum depression can be cost-effective: An example from Sweden.

An eHealth program versus a standard care supervised health program and associated health outcomes in individuals with mobility disability: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Children with two homes: Psychological problems in relation to living arrangements in Nordic 2- to 9-year-olds.

Barnmorskans samtal om alkohol i tidig graviditet med blivande mammor och pappor

Father group leaders' experiences of creating an arena for father support - A qualitative study.

Swedish child health nurses treat fathers more equally in 2014 than 2004, but mothers remain their primary focus.

Is all support equal?: Head Start preschool teachers' psychological job attitudes

Supporting same-sex mothers in the Nordic child health field: a systematic literature review and meta-synthesis of the most gender equal countries.

Literature review shows that fathers are still not receiving the support they want and need from Swedish child health professionals.