Questions | Prompts/Probes | |
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Intro | Tell me a little about your home life? | • First pregnancy? • Married, single? • Other Children – how many? • Employed – how many hours you work? |
Tell me a bit about your lifestyle at the moment? | • Diet – cravings, nausea • PA – active before pregnancy, frequency, duration • Have diet/PA patterns changed since pregnancy? • In what way and why? | |
Health | Has a HCP made you aware of the risks surrounding your pregnancy | • Excessive weight gain • GDM • Potential difficulties during delivery • How does that make you feel? |
PA and Diet | What PA do you/would you like doing? | • Walking, running, exercises tailored for pregnancy, sports, gym? |
How important do you feel exercise and PA is during pregnancy? | • Fitness level • Mobility • Give you more energy • Help sleep | |
Tell me what you think would be the best way to encourage women to be watchful of diet and PA during pregnancy? | • Through friends, other pregnant women, GP, nurses, information sessions, individual or group, exercise and diet programmes | |
Behaviour Change | Have you been given advice about dietary habits and PA since you became pregnant? | • HCP, family, friend, book, internet? • When was this? • How did you feel about the advice? |
What to do think are the main challenges to PA and diet changes during pregnancy? | • Lack of information/ support/ time/ resources | |
Would you be interested in using technology to help you track and improve you PA and diet | • Mobile phone apps, text message/phone, web based information forums, pedometer? • Would these support mechanisms be useful? • If it provided you with information as well • If it provided you HCP with your information | |
How would you feel about participating in a study where technology would be used as encouragement to increase PA? | • Mobile phone apps, text message/phone, web based information forums, pedometer • Access to internet, mobile phone | |
Is there anything I haven’t asked you today you would like to mention? |