Skip to main content

Table 2 Theme, categories, and sub-categories

From: “An on-going individual adjustment”: a qualitative study of midwives’ experiences counselling pregnant women on physical activity in Sweden

Theme

Category

Sub-category

An on-going individual adjustment

Counselling as a challenge

• Fighting lack of resources

• Responding to high-achieving women

• Responding to perceived barriers to physical activity in pregnant women

• Responding to the cultural tug-of-war

Counselling as walking the thin ice

• Fearing no success

• Guarding the relationship

• Acting upon individual needs

Counselling as an opportunity

• Navigating within cultural traditions

  

• Identifying women’s individual facilitators