Optimising mothers' health behaviour after hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a qualitative study of a postnatal intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy have longer-term implications, increasing women's lifetime cardiovascular disease risk. The Blood Pressure Postpartum study is a multi-centre randomised three-arm trial of interventions, ranging in intensity and including education and lifestyle coaching, to support women to maintain or adopt healthy eating and physical activity during the first postpartum year. This qualitative sub-study nested within the main trial aimed to investigate whether and how women adopted healthy behaviours after a pregnancy complicated by a hypertensive disorder.

Methods

Semi-structured telephone interviews were recorded, transcribed and analysed thematically, following Braun and Clarke principles. They explored behaviour change among new mothers fo

SUBMITTER: Rossiter C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9235190 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature