The Feasibility of an Online Intergenerational Co-parenting Program

Families in the control group will be provided with routine care, including regular antenatal check ups, one bed side education (within 24 hours after delivery), one group session with discharge precautions (3rd to 5th day postpartum), two home visits (first week and second week after discharge respectively), and two physical body check at hospital on the 30th and 42nd day postpartum. Contents of the bed side education, pre-discharge education and home visits focuses on health related information, such as postpartum care, infant care and breastfeeding, etc.

The program is proposed to include five sessions, with three antenatal sessions to be offered weekly during the 34-36 weeks gestation and two postnatal sessions weekly starting from the first week after discharge from hospital. The intervention will be delivered online.The program is designed for the intergenerational co-parenting families to undertake with parents together with grandmothers. The online courses will be delivered by an online platform in the study hospital. The first session will be pushed to participants in the intervention group within 2 days (around 34 weeks gestation) after recruitment. The second and third session will be pushed around 35 and 36 weeks gestation separately. The first postnatal session will be provided around the first to second week postpartum; and second postnatal session will be provided around the third to fourth week postpartum.