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a lifestyle promotion program for use in this high-risk group. Addressing these preferred lifestyle-counseling characteristics might promote participation in and adherence to postpartum lifestyle counseling aimed at women who have experienced these pregnancy complications.
Table 3.3.2. Prompts to explore women’s preferences for postpartum lifestyle counseling after a pregnancy complicated with preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction and/or gestational diabetes.
To what extent do you need postpartum lifestyle counseling?
What would be your preferred characteristics of a lifestyle promotion program? Face-to-face counseling
 By whom would you prefer the lifestyle counseling to be offered?
 Would you prefer your counselor to be a man or a woman?
 What profession would you prefer the counselor to have?
 Would you prefer seeing the same counselor across visits? Would you prefer
multiple counselors?
 Where would you prefer the lifestyle counseling to take place?
 When would you prefer the lifestyle counseling to be offered?
 Would you prefer a separate visit for counseling or would you prefer to combine
visits?
 What would you prefer with regard to the frequency of counseling visits?
Computer-tailored counseling
 What do you think about offering computer-tailored counseling on the Internet?
 What do you think of combining lifestyle counseling with a computer-tailored
lifestyle promotion program?