‘You try to play a role in her pregnancy’ - a qualitative study on recent fathers’ perspectives about childbearing and encounter with the maternal health system in Kigali, Rwanda

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Table 1 Overview of data collection

Participants	Data collected	N (type of data collection)	Length	Place
Partners to MNM	1–3 day(s) post-MNM	9 (IDI)	20–60 min	Hospital, private room
Partners to MNM	3–6 months post-MNM	4 (IDI, with MNM partner)	60–120 min	Participants’ home
Partners to MNM and snowballed participants	3–6 months post-MNM	3 (FGD; total 19 participants)	120–180 min	Conference center
Partners to MNM and snowballed participants	6–12 months post-MNM	3 (GD; total 8 participants)	90–120 min	Participants’ home

MNM=maternal near-miss; IDI=individual, semi-structured interview; GD=group discussion; FGD=focus group discussion.

Fig. 1 Conceptual framework, inspired from Connell (26), mapping recent fathers’ perceived roles during childbearing and maternal care-seeking, illustrated on the different levels.

Connell R. Gender: in world perspective. 2009; Cambridge: Polity.

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