Table 2 List of questions for FGs and the corresponding themes

Women’s knowledge and questions about preconception health

What are the things that you are interested in knowing on the topic of motherhood: (conception and pregnancy)

Based on your experience, what is the information that women more frequently ask before pregnancy?

What information have you received so far (and from whom)?

And instead, what should they ask and not ask?

Is there something that your physician or other HCPs should have talked to you about and that you think they did not?

Why do you think they do not ask?

Are there questions that you wanted to ask but for some reason did not? Why?

In your opinion, are there any questions that have not been answered? Which ones?

What can a healthy person do to promote a good pregnancy and the health of the expected baby?

What kind of information do they seek on the Internet?

What are the things that could affect the fetus’s development?

What do you know about folic acid? (When should you start taking it?)

Attitudes and behaviours of women and HCPs towards preconception health

With whom have you spoken to regarding your intention to have a baby?

What do you think is the attitude of HCPs towards preconception interventions?

Why? What did you expect? What did he tell you?

Why are so many women turning to the OB-GYN or services only after they get pregnant?

What was the attitude of the GP and OB-GYN toward your questions/curiosities?

Why do you think so many women are turning to the OB-GYN or services only after they get pregnant or if they are having trouble getting pregnant, and not before?

Worries and barriers regarding PC interventions

At this time what are the things that worry you most about motherhood (conception and pregnancy)?

What worries most women who intend to get pregnant?

Have you ever thought that the child could be born with problems? This is never spoken, in your opinion, why?

Are there things/topics that you do not want to hear about? Why?

Women’s information sources

Who has spoken to her GP of her intention to have a baby?

And to the OB-GYN?

What did you ask? (Or "why you did not think to talk to him/her?")

Have you ever sought information on the Internet on conception and pregnancy? What have you searched?

Are there other sources of information that you have consulted on conception and pregnancy? What kind of information have you obtained from these sources?