Abstract
Background: Pregnancy can be physically and emotionally stressful for the parents, which means they need adequate professional support. Easy-to-use, validated scales are important in order to develop professional support in Antenatal care as well as in research. The aim: Our aim was to illuminate pregnant women's experience of professional support at the Antenatal care, in relation to the Mother-Perceived-Professionals-Support (MoPPS) scale. Method: A qualitative study design using the method Think aloud with both inductive and deductive approaches, was used. Five first-time mothers were interviewed with open questions followed by questions related to the MoPPS scale items. Data was analyzed using inductive and deductive qualitative content analyses. Results: The inductive analysis resulted in one theme: Professional support from midwives made women created a feeling of security and unique or rejected and lonely during pregnancy and three categories: Continuity and Perceiving trust or not and Parental groups or individual visits. The deductive analysis described the mothers' understanding of each item. However, coherence between the inductive and deductive analyses varied and the MoPPS-scale needs development. Conclusion: The result shows that women's experience of professional support affects their sense of feeling safe or lonely during pregnancy. Important for midwives were to meet the women's unique individual needs. The MoPPS scale was considered to be relevant and easy to understand, but it needs development to include questions about continuity, parental groups and the perception of midwives' competence, which all were important for the women during their pregnancies.
Highlights
Pregnancy can be physically and psychologically stressful for a parent which means that they often need professional support [1]
The result shows that women's experience of professional support affects their sense of feeling safe or lonely during pregnancy
The MoPPS scale was considered to be relevant and easy to understand, but it needs development to include questions about continuity, parental groups and the perception of midwives’ competence, which all were important for the women during their pregnancies
Summary
Pregnancy can be physically and psychologically stressful for a parent which means that they often need professional support [1]. Women with a low education feel dissatisfied with the lack of emotional support from the midwives in antenatal care, but in contrast to other studies the women in this study experienced medical support as poor [11]. Professional support during pregnancy is likewise important since it has an impact on first-time mothers’ feelings for and relations to their babies [13,14]. Pregnancy can be physically and emotionally stressful for the parents, which means they need adequate professional support. The aim: Our aim was to illuminate pregnant women’s experience of professional support at the Antenatal care, in relation to the Mother-Perceived-Professionals-Support (MoPPS) scale
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