Table 2.

Overall structure of the FGD and IDI guides

• Status of maternal health  • Trends in maternal care seeking behaviours  • Common practices before delivery and underlying reasons  • Common practices during delivery and underlying reasons  • Enabling factors contributing to institutional delivery  • Barriers to institutional delivery  • Roles of family members  • Roles of community members, i.e. TBAs, FCHVs, neighbours  • Opinions about birthing centres available in the community  • Suggestions to increase institutional delivery