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Table 1 Topic guides for semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions

From: A qualitative study exploring newborn care behaviours after home births in rural Ethiopia: implications for adoption of essential interventions for saving newborn lives

Semi-structured interviews

Focus group discussions

Question

Question

I try not to interrupt you; so please feel free to tell me everything you remember about this birth and the context when it happened starting from when you went to labour, newborn care your baby received and other events that followed immediately after the birth of [name].

During the interviews, you told me about the context within which you initiated breastfeeding and all events and newborn care practices you remember taking place following the birth [name]. In this focus group discussion, I would like to discuss some of these practices further in order to understand how common these practices are within your community and more details about how each newborn care behavior is practiced and underlying beliefs, if any

Probes

Discussion points

Who attended the birth?

Cord care

Cord care = what was used to cut and tie the cord? Did you apply anything on it?

Immediate bathing & drying

Thermal care = was the baby given immediate bath and dried?

 

Breastfeeding initiation = when did you start breastfeeding your baby, did you give baby anything other than breastmilk soon after birth?

Lanka mansat

Any other newborn care practice you would like to mention please?

Pre-lacteal feeding and early initiation of breastfeeding