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despite their positive attitude, their motivation to comply to the beliefs of important referents, and their favorable intention, can be explained by applying the Theory of Planned Behavior. According to this theory, these women did not achieve a healthy postpartum lifestyle because of their low perceived behavioral control. This suggests that a healthy lifestyle can be promoted in these women by improving their perceived behavioral control. Perceived behavioral control might be increased by lowering or removing perceived barriers, such as lack of postpartum guidance, and poor physical and psychological recovery. Thus, a healthy postpartum lifestyle may be promoted by supporting postpartum recovery and by providing better postpartum guidance.
Table 3.4.2. Discussion guide to explore women’s perceptions of postpartum lifestyle after a pregnancy complicated by preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and/or intrauterine growth restriction
Opening questions
 What comes to mind when you think of a healthy lifestyle?
 What do you consider to be a healthy lifestyle?
Attitude
 To what extend is the adoption of a healthy lifestyle important to you?
 What makes a healthy lifestyle important to you?
 To what extent do you want to adopt a healthy lifestyle?
Intention
 To what extent do you intent to adopt a healthy lifestyle?
Motivators
 What motivates you to adopt a healthy lifestyle?
 What would be the reason for you to adopt a healthy lifestyle?
 To what extent does your social environment motivate you to adopt a healthy
lifestyle (subjective norm)? Barriers
 To what extent wo you think you are able to adopt a healthy lifestyle (perceived behavior control)?
 Why do you think you may not be able to adopt a healthy lifestyle?
 To what extent does your social environment not allow you to adopt a healthy
lifestyle (subjective norm)?