Table 3 Key questions covered in focus group discussions and individual interviews
Data Collection/Participants | Question Guides |
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FGD 1 + 2 Community Leaders (N = 15) | 1. As CLs, what is your understanding of maternal mortality? 2. As CLs, what is your experience of why women in your community die in pregnancy, during birth and in the six weeks following giving birth? 3. From your knowledge and experience, what are the causes for women dying in pregnancy, during birth and in the 42 days after giving birth? 4. How do women in the community know when they are having problems in their pregnancy, during labour/birth or for the weeks following birth? 5. In our community, what does the community do to help women in pregnancy, during labour and birth and after birth? 6. As CLs, what help can you give/do you give for women having these kinds of problems? 7. What is the impact on our community when women die, either in pregnancy, while giving birth, or in the 42 days after having a baby? 8. As CLs, what can you propose for our community as ways to stop women dying at this time in their lives? |
FDG 3 + 4 Traditional Birth Attendants (N = 16) | 1. As TBAs, what is your understanding of maternal mortality? 2. In our community, what do you do to help women in pregnancy, during labour and birth and after birth? 3. When things are not going well in pregnancy, labour and birth or the weeks after having a baby, how does that look? 4. As TBAs, how do you know when women in the community are having problems in their pregnancy, during labour/birth or for the weeks following birth? 5. In our community, as TBAs what do you do to help women in pregnancy, during labour and birth and after birth, when they are having problems? 6. As TBAs, what is your experience of why women in your community die in pregnancy, during birth and in the six weeks following giving birth? 7. What is the impact on our community when women die, either in pregnancy, while giving birth, or in the 42 days after having a baby? 8. What help could the whole community give so women don’t die in our community? 9. As TBAs, what can you propose for our community as ways to stop women dying at this time in their lives? |
IIs 1–5 Women Survivors of Near-Miss Maternal Experiences (N = 5) | 1. What was it like for you to be pregnant, to be in labour/give birth, and/or during the days/weeks after you had your baby? 2. What challenges or difficulties did you experience in your pregnancy, during birth or in the weeks after having a baby? 3. How did you know when something wasn’t going well for you? 4. What did you do to try to “fix the problem”? 5. What help did you get from those around you? From your community? 6. How did people from your community help you? 7. How do you feel about this experience of pregnancy/birth/weeks after birth? 8. What did you learn from this difficult experience? 9. What advice can you give others (other women, other community members), given the difficult experience you have had? |