Suggested interventions | Illustrative quotes |
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Supplemental written information | 1. I think it feels good to be able to get a note or brochure [containing information]. (Father 1) |
2. I thought that everything was completely clear when I sat there and got the information, but then I came home and was going to tell my grandmother, maybe, or someone else about it, and then I couldn’t remember and I didn’t know how it was. (Mother 2) | |
3. Somethat that would really be a help in any case would be to get a piece of paper. Perhaps just one or two pages of general information about the heart but also where you can look for information. (Mother 3) | |
4. All the information about what to apply for and what help there is and things like that comes too late. (Father 2) | |
5. I think it feels good to be able to have a leaflet like that, a brochure. […] Maybe you sit at home and read it, you maybe go to your grandparents and take it with you. You don’t have to go on the Internet. (Mother 3) | |
6. For me an information website on the Internet would probably have been enough […] Purely information, that is. (Female 2, pregnancy termination) | |
7. We were very happy anyway that we could go home and read the information on the Internet. (Male 2, pregnancy termination) | |
8. I don’t remember half of what he [the doctor] said, mind you. (Female 1, pregnancy termination) | |
9. Yes, you can find all kinds of strange things that you shouldn’t read [on the Internet]… (Female 3, pregnancy termination) | |
 | 10. Information on a website is a good start. (Male 2, pregnancy termination) |
Follow-up consultation | 1. Often when you read, questions arise and sometimes you don’t have any more contact with the doctors before you have to reach a decision. (Mother 2) |
2. Then perhaps you could meet a few days later and go through it again, because you digest it and take things in and interpret. And you distort things a bit. (Mother 3) | |
3. I would have appreciated the same information repeatedly […] A second consultation with a physician or a specialist. […] A whole lot of questions usually arise, the more you read about it. (Father 1) | |
4. Because I noticed when I was there afterwards that I would have preferred a follow-up talk with a midwife or something like that. (Female 2, pregnancy termination) | |
5. We met two doctors and I think that was why we could take it in better […] The second time we were more open because we had had time to think a bit. (Female 1, pregnancy termination) |