Table 3: Theoretical Methods and Practical Strategies for the WazzUp Mama?! Intervention

Pregnant Women

Determinant

Theoretical Method

Strategies

Conditions

 

Communicative support

Encourage and stimulate women to disclose private and sometimes sensitive information

Requires a relationship of trust and supportiveness with the midwife

 

Tailoring

Tailor information to the woman’s needs and her actual situation: Offer important general knowledge about the situation. Let the woman link the general knowledge to maternal distress

Requires that information is responsive to the woman’s needs, concerns personal factors that are relevant to her and her situation, and relates to behaviour.

Midwives

Determinant

Theoretical Method

Strategies

Conditions

Social norm

Intergroup dialogue training

Stimulate to share experiences, which permit the interplay of character and personality and recognising the benefits to provide care for maternal distress.

Requires a relationship of openness, trust and supportiveness among colleague midwives

Knowledge

 

 

 

 

Skills management

Information processing

Provide midwives with awareness-knowledge, how-to knowledge and principle-knowledge about maternal distress

 

Stimulate to share experiences, which permit the interplay of character and personality and recognising the benefits to provide care for maternal distress

Requires information that is responsive to the midwives’ level of explicit and tacit knowledge and practical needs

 

 

 

Requires a relationship of openness, trust and supportiveness among colleague midwives