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Table 1 Standardized interview guide

From: Qualitative analysis of mothers’ perception related to the delivery of information regarding preterm births

General information

In the course of your prenatal care, you may have received information about the risk of preterm birth.

- Which interviews had the most impact on you in particular? For each interview, which professionals conducted them?

- How did you feel about this information in general? How did you feel when the risk of preterm delivery was announced?

About hospitalization

- How did you feel about receiving information about your hospitalization? Who provided this information?

- What else would you have liked to know about your hospital stay? What do you remember about this information? What experience do you retain from this information?

About treatments

- Which treatments do you remember receiving? How do you feel about the information regarding these treatments for managing your state of health (pre-eclampsia, etc.) and preterm birth?

- What information have you missed about these treatments?

Circumstances of the prenatal interview

- Where and when did this interview take place? With which healthcare professional? Were you accompanied during this interview (spouse, family member, etc.)?

- What would you have liked for this antenatal interview (presence of someone in particular, with several professionals, at what point during hospitalization, etc.)?

Content of the interview on preterm birth

- What important messages did you retain (figures, statistics, risk of neonatal death mentioned)? Did you miss any information or was it too detailed?

- How did you feel about your interviewer’s attitude? What does the antenatal interview on preterm birth mean to you as part of your overall perinatal experience?

- Which factors helped you to better apprehend this situation of preterm birth (close relatives or healthcare team’s support, experiences in the family, spirituality, etc.)?

- How has your role with your child been described?

- What additional resources would you have liked to have had available (written documents, videos, a visit to the neonatology department, etc.)?

Points for improvement

- What information did you miss during this interview, in the light of your subsequent experience, and how could this interview be improved?