Perceptions of pregnancy preparation in women with a low to intermediate educational attainment: A qualitative study

M’hamdi, Hafez Ismaili; Sijpkens, Meertien K.; Beaufort, Inez de; Rosman, Ageeth N.; Steegers, Eric A.P.

doi:10.1016/j.midw.2018.01.004

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“…Many prospective parents have some knowledge on the content of PCC (e.g. not Borrero et al, 2015;Canady et al, 2008;Charron-Prochownik et al, 2006;Forde et al, 2016;Frey and Files, 2006;Funnell et al, 2018;Hosli et al, 2008aHosli et al, , 2008bHussaini et al, 2013;Janz et al, 1995;Lang et al, 2020;Lewis et al, 2013;Lynch et al, 2014;M'Hamdi et al, 2018;Manze et al, 2020;Mazza and Chapman, 2010;McGowan et al, 2020;Mitchell et al, 2012;Murphy et al, 2010;O'Higgins et al, 2014;Poels et al, 2017aPoels et al, , 2017bQuinn et al, 2006;…”

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“…behaviour, time pressure to change unhealthy behaviour and social pressure for achieving behavioural change(van Voorst et al, 2017;O'Higgins et al, 2014;Squiers et al, 2013;van der Zee et al, 2013a;Tuomainen et al, 2013;Murphy et al, 2010;Poels et al, 2017a;McGowan et al, 2020). By contrast, actively preparing for pregnancy can also lead to several benefits, such as improved personal health, health gain for the prospective child, possible reduced time to conception, feelings of reassurance, confirmation and relieving stress(Poels et al, 2017a;Squiers et al, 2013;M'Hamdi et al, 2018; …”

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A social marketing strategy to promote preconception care: development of the Woke Women strategy

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Purpose Exposure to unhealthy lifestyle behaviours before pregnancy affects the health of mothers and their (unborn) children. A social marketing strategy could empower prospective parents to actively prepare for pregnancy through preconception care (PCC). This study aims to describe the development of a PCC social marketing strategy based on the eight-point benchmark criteria for effective social marketing and to clarify the concept of using social marketing for health promotion purposes. Design/methodology/approach An extensive literature search was carried out regarding the needs of the target population and PCC behavioural goals, leading to the development of a bottom-up, ambassador-driven, communication concept. Findings In-depth insights of all benchmarks were analysed and incorporated during the development process of a new PCC social marketing strategy, with a special focus on the application of the “Health Belief Model” (Benchmark 3) and “the Four-P framework” (Benchmark 8). Evidence-based preconceptional health information is our product, for a low price as the information is freely attainable, promoting a message of overall women‘s health and online or through a consult with a health-care provider as the appropriate place. This formative research resulted in the development of the Woke Women® strategy, empowering women to actively prepare for pregnancy. Originality/value Developing a social marketing strategy to enhance actively preparing for pregnancy shows potential to encourage prospective parents to adopt healthier preconceptional lifestyle behaviours and can therefore improve the health of future generations.

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“…In other words, she has an internal locus of control. There is evidence suggesting that women living in underprivileged neighborhoods experience limited internal control over their pregnancy and the health of their offspring ( M’hamdi et al , 2018b ). Although this group of women is open to receiving help and care, they tend not to seek it because of their perceived limited control over their pregnancy and their pregnancy outcomes ( Poels et al , 2016 ).…”

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“…On the other hand, research has shown that women who have an increased risk to have poor pregnancy outcomes because of the unjust and underprivileged circumstances they live in, tend to not seek pregnancy-related care ( M’hamdi et al , 2017 ; Poels et al , 2016 ; Goossens et al , 2018 ). This tendency has been associated with: lacking information on pregnancy-related health and care, having a lower health literacy as well as the perception that they do not face increased risks for poor pregnancy outcomes ( M’hamdi et al , 2018b ). In other words, life in underprivileged circumstances is not only associated with a higher risk to have poor pregnancy outcomes ( Vos et al , 2014 ) but also with poorer ‘preceptory skills’ to experience these higher risks as such ( Poels et al , 2016 ; M’hamdi et al , 2018b ).…”

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“…This tendency has been associated with: lacking information on pregnancy-related health and care, having a lower health literacy as well as the perception that they do not face increased risks for poor pregnancy outcomes ( M’hamdi et al , 2018b ). In other words, life in underprivileged circumstances is not only associated with a higher risk to have poor pregnancy outcomes ( Vos et al , 2014 ) but also with poorer ‘preceptory skills’ to experience these higher risks as such ( Poels et al , 2016 ; M’hamdi et al , 2018b ). Poverty-related pregnancy risks do not advertise themselves, and may remain hidden to the women most prone to them.…”

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Health Agency and Perfectionism: The Case of Perinatal Health Inequalities

M’hamdi

Beaufort

2021

Public Health Ethics

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Poor pregnancy outcomes and inequalities in these outcomes remain a major challenge, even in prosperous societies that have high-quality health care and public health policy in place. In this article, we propose that justice demands the improvement of what we call the ‘health agency’ of parents-to-be as part of a response to these poor outcomes. We take health agency to have three aspects: (i) the capacity to form health-goals one has reason to value, (ii) the control one perceives to have over achieving those health-goals and (iii) the freedom(s) one has to achieve those health-goals. We will moreover argue that this demand of justice can be best based on a perfectionist rather than neutralist method of justification. Subsequently, we will argue that perfectionist policy may be paternalistic but not wrongfully paternalistic. This leads us to conclude that perfectionism should be adopted to inform and justify public health policy that is aimed at improving health agency in general and counteracting poor pregnancy outcomes and inequalities in perinatal health outcomes in particular.

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Preconceptiezorg in de dagelijkse huisartsenpraktijk

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Jong-Potjer

2019

Praktische Huisartsgeneeskunde

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Perceptions of pregnancy preparation in women with a low to intermediate educational attainment: A qualitative study

Cited by 16 publications

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A social marketing strategy to promote preconception care: development of the Woke Women strategy

A social marketing strategy to promote preconception care: development of the Woke Women strategy

Health Agency and Perfectionism: The Case of Perinatal Health Inequalities

Preconceptiezorg in de dagelijkse huisartsenpraktijk

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