Table 1 Interview prompts regarding the experiences and perspectives of pregnant women with high BMIs
Topic | Question |
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Women’s Experiences and Perspectives | |
General Experience | • Tell me about your experience receiving obstetrics care at [institution name]. • How much courtesy and respect do you feel that the providers, nurses, medical assistants, and front desk staff treated you with? • How much do you feel like the providers, nurses, medical assistants, front desk staff listened to you? • Tell me about any discussion you had with your provider about your weight. • How did your provider address your weight? • How did you feel when your healthcare provider first mentioned your weight? • Did you continue to feel that way or did your feelings change over the course of the discussion or your care? • Tell me about any discussion you had with your provider about gaining weight during pregnancy. • What did your provider say about gaining weight during pregnancy? • Did you provider explain that any of their recommendations were specifically related to your weight? For example, did they order extra ultrasounds, blood tests or lab tests, or fetal monitoring because of your weight? |
Experiences and knowledge related to weight | Based upon your discussions and care with the healthcare team: • What is your understanding how your weight affects your health in general? • What is your understanding of how your weight affects pregnancy? • What is your understanding of how your weight affects the health of your baby? |
Hospitalization, Labor, and Delivery | • Were you hospitalized on the antepartum unit prior to your delivery for reasons other than induction or management of labor? (If yes ask the following questions) • Tell me about your labor and delivery experience at Meriter. • Tell me about your postpartum experience at Meriter. • Are there any other experiences you’d like to share? • Tell me about any time that you felt that your weight affected your care or relationships with providers during pregnancy? • Tell me about anything your healthcare team could have done better to support you during your pregnancy? • Tell me about anything your healthcare team could have done better to help you manage weight gain during your pregnancy? |