1) Describe your interactions with healthcare providers and staff | |
2) What do you perceive as barriers and facilitators to seeking healthcare? | |
3) What does health mean to you? | |
4) What have you experienced while supporting your spouse or partner during pregnancy? | |
5) How would you describe your own health during this time? | |
6) What emotional and mental changes did you experience? | |
7) How would you describe your support system? | |
8) Were you working or taking care of other children? | |
9) What have you observed in the experiences of other men of color in your family or community? | |
10) Can you describe your experience(s) of seeking health care during your partner or spouses’ pregnancy? | |
• What stands out in your mind? What questions did you have? | |
• What would you change about this experience? What would you do differently? | |
11) What things did you want to know that your health care provider couldn’t answer for you or your spouse? | |
12) What things did you wonder about after talking with family or friends or after reading about them? | |
13) What was your experience like with having a baby born early? | |
14) When you hear that families of color in Fresno have such a high rates of preterm birth, what questions does that bring to mind for you? | |
15) Do you have any unanswered questions or an uncertainty about what causes preterm birth and how to prevent it? | |
16) What about treatment of babies and support for families? | |
17) What questions do you have about the NICU experience? | |
18) How do you think that answering that question through research will help other MOC/ families? |