Table 1 Summary of FGD participants and content

Traditional birth attendants (TBAs)

4

46

Experience & training; perceptions of quality care; rewards & challenges; managing complications; community preferences for care; options for TBA/SBA collaboration.

Community health workers (CHWs)

3

45

Community preferences for care; reasons for this; decision making about care; accessibility of services; managing complications; perceptions of TBAs and SBAs.

Women who have delivered with an SBA in the past two years

3

27

Care seeking choices and decision making; practitioner preferences; reasons for this; experiences of care; characteristics of good quality care; options for SBA/TBA collaboration.

Women who have delivered with a TBA in the past two years

5

59

As above.

Women who have delivered unattended in the past two years

2

30

As above.

Husbands of women who have delivered in the past two years

2

25

Care seeking choices and decision making; practitioner preferences; reasons for this; characteristics of good quality care; options for SBA/TBA collaboration.