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| Demographics | What is your age? How would you describe your racial or ethnic background? What is the sex on your birth certificate? Is it male, female, or other? What is your gender identity? Do you consider female, male, transgender, nonbinary or something else? Do you identify as straight, gay, bisexual, or something else? |
| Learning about the pregnancy | How old were you when you first had a positive pregnancy test? Tell me the story of finding out that you had a positive pregnancy test. Prompts : Where/how did you receive this news? Did you suspect that you might be pregnant ? How did you feel at that time? What ideas came up initially about what you might do? Who did you decide to tell or speak with? How? Who was in your support system at the time? |
| Initial interactions with healthcare providers |
Did you go to see a healthcare provider? Tell me what that was like. Prompts: How did you come to a decision to talk to a healthcare provider? How soon after finding out about the pregnancy test, or was the positive pregnancy test at the healthcare visit? What kind of provider were they? Had you ever seen them before? How did you feel about going to see a healthcare provider? How could your healthcare provider have best supported you in making a decision about the pregnancy? |
| Quality of encounter with health care provider |
How did you feel about your conversation with the healthcare provider? What happened? General prompts: What was something that went well? What would you have changed? How could that experience have been better for you? How did you feel during the appointment? Prompts about confidentiality: Who was with you in the room while you were talking to the healthcare provider? Did the healthcare provider ask if you wanted to speak privately? Did the healthcare provider ask if you wanted to have anyone else in the room? How did you feel about that? Was there a discussion about confidentiality? Options-specific prompts: Did the healthcare provider talk to you about your options such as choosing to become a parent, pursuing adoption or having an abortion? If so, what was that like? Did they discuss each of these possibilities and how did that go? How did you feel about your pregnancy decision during this encounter? Prompts about next steps How did you and the healthcare provider decide what would happen next? What follow up was arranged after this visit? What referrals or resources were offered? |
| Subsequent encounters with healthcare providers | What happened next? When was the next time that you saw a healthcare provider, and how did that go? |
| Pregnancy decision-making |
How did you arrive at a decision regarding your pregnancy test results (such as whether to become a parent, pursue adoption, or have an abortion)? Prompts: What was helpful to you in decision making? At what time did you make this decision? What factored into the decision for you? How did interactions with healthcare providers affect your decision making? How could healthcare providers have best supported you in your decision making? |
| Support system | Who was helpful to you in thinking about whether to become a parent, have an abortion, or plan for adoption? Who was helpful to you in making a decision (about whether to become a parent, pursue adoption, or have an abortion)? Prompts: What role did parents play? A partner? Friends or other family? Healthcare providers? Online information? Websites? Social media? |
| Advice |
What advice do you have for healthcare providers who are speaking with young people about their pregnancy test results?
What advice do you have for healthcare providers who are supporting young women in deciding about their pregnancy test results? What advice do you have for young people who have a positive pregnancy test? |
| Questions for Participants who chose abortion |
Tell me about your experience with abortion care. Prompts: What was most memorable to you? What went well? What could have gone better? |