Table 1 final version of the CHAT-maternity-care

1. Supportive relationship with care providers

Which care providers do you contact if you have a question about the pregnancy and the period thereafter?

Are other care providers involved?

Do you know what questions to ask and which care provider to ask them to? Can you reach that care provider easily?

How do parents respond to care providers who visit them during the postpartum period?

How does it make you feel to talk to that person about the questions or concerns you have?

Are the parents able to explain their problems/concerns well to you as a care provider?

2. Supportive relationship within parents’ personal network

With which people in your network (partner, family, friends, and neighbours) do you talk if you have questions about your pregnancy and the period thereafter?

Is someone else coming along to appointments? Is this always the same person?

How does it make you feel to talk to that person/those persons?

After the baby is born, are there family, friends, and/or neighbours who can answer the parents’ health-related questions?

Do you feel understood by that person/those persons?

Do the parents address each other’s health-related questions?

Which person helps you best with health-related questions about you of your baby? How do they help you now? And how do you think they will help you in the future?

3. Health information access and comprehension

Did you search/are you searching for information about the pregnancy and the period thereafter? Where did you find/are you finding that information?

What kind of questions do you receive from the parents?

Can you find this information easily or is it difficult?

What information do the parents come to you with?

What do you think of this information?

 - Do you know what information you can trust and which not?

 - Is this information difficult or easy to understand?

 - Is it too much, too little or just enough information?

What do parents do with the information they receive? Can they follow-up on instructions?

How do you compare different information (sources)?

Are there signs that the parents have difficulties with writing or reading?

4. Current health behaviour and health promotion

How do you take good care of yourself and your baby?

Are the parents actively involved in their health?

What do you do on a daily or weekly basis to stay healthy?

Do the parents ask for help?

If you want to stay healthy during the period before and after the baby is born, what do you find easy and what difficult?

Are the parents able to take steps to behave healthily?

Who or what helps you to live healthily during the pregnancy and the period thereafter? Who or what prevents this?

What do you want to do to live healthily?