About you and your family | • Date of birth (Q) |
• Country of birth; transit country; year of arrival in Australia (Q) | |
• Hazara, Pashtu or Tajik background (Q) | |
• Other children: age & country of birth (Q) | |
• Household composition (Q) | |
• Schooling (Q) | |
• English proficiency; literacy in own language | |
• Health care concession card (Q) | |
• Paid employment (Q) | |
• Transport (Q) | |
About your pregnancy care | • Gestation at first antenatal check-up (Q) |
• Knowledge of health system; accessing care | |
• Who provided care; location of care; getting to care | |
• Husband’s attendance; role at visits | |
• Interpreter required; experience of language support | |
• Attendance at emergency departments | |
• Experience of screening tests; explanation of results | |
• Interactions with care providers | |
• Knowledge and attendance at childbirth education | |
• Information about pregnancy and maternity care | |
• Good things about care; what could have been better | |
Having your baby | • Place of birth (Q) |
• Arrival at hospital | |
• Family/friends present | |
• Language: who interpreted; experience of language support | |
• Care providers: interaction; explanations | |
• Mode of birth (Q) | |
• Good things about care; what could have been better | |
After the birth | • Length of stay; reason for going home |
• Overall experience of hospital care | |
• Infant feeding; support for breastfeeding issues | |
• Home visits following birth | |
• Interpreter use; experience of language services | |
• Experience of Maternal and Child Health Services: access; continuity; liked/didn’t like about care; what could have been better | |
• Visits to General Practitioners | |
Psychosocial issues | • Asked about: relationship problems; feelings of sadness or depression; your family here and overseas; financial worries; violence at home; housing problems; legal problems (Q) |
• Experience of being asked about things happening in life | |
Support during and after pregnancy | • Accessing information about own health & child health |
• Knowledge and use of local services (e.g. refugee specific services; playgroups; legal services) for self and husband (Q) | |
Overall views of care | • Asked about & able to follow traditional practices |
• Perceived discrimination (e.g. talked down to, treated unfairly) (Q) | |
Role of men | • Life as an Afghan man in Australia |
• Role as a father in Australia compared with Afghanistan |