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Table 2 Focus Group Questions/Themes – see Additional file 1 for complete focus group guide

From: Getting through the day: a pilot qualitative study of U.S. women’s experiences making decisions about anti-nausea medication during pregnancy

Question Type

Examples

Building Rapport

What you would like us to call you?

How many children do you have?

Questions about women’s experience with nausea or vomiting in pregnancy.

We would like to go around and have you briefly describe how nausea during pregnancy affected your life.

Questions about women’s experience making decisions about how to treat nausea and vomiting in pregnancy.

Did your doctor or midwife suggest any treatments? Did he or she offer to prescribe medications to treat your nausea/vomiting? (Vit B6, Unisom) What was the most important thing that you considered when deciding whether to take a medicine for nausea and/or vomiting in pregnancy?

Questions about women’s experiences with medications to treat nausea and vomiting in pregnancy

Now let’s talk about your experience with medications. For those of you who took medication for nausea, can you describe your experience with medications? [Note –ask probing questions for each medication].For this kind of medication, what does effectiveness look like to you? For example, how would you know if an anti-nausea medication was working?