Fig 1.
Timing of respondents’ pregnancy scan appointments during the pandemic.
Table 1.
Participant characteristics.
Table 2.
Respondents’ scan information.
Table 3.
Parents’ self-reported information searching behaviours†.
Table 4.
Expectations and experiences of the scan appointment†.
Table 5.
Pre and post scan comparisons of anxiety, excitement, bonding and psychological distress (Welch’s t-test).
Table 6.
Pre and post-scan correlations between bonding (PAI), psychological distress (CORE-10) and feelings about the scan (anxiety, excitement, satisfaction and information searching).
Table 7.
Comparison of maternal and paternal feelings following pregnancy scan (Welch’s t-test) †.
Table 8.
Post-scan anxiety, excitement, satisfaction, bonding and psychological distress by parental experience of scans (Welch’s t-test) †.
Table 9.
Post-hoc analysis of post-scan anxiety and satisfaction by timing of scan during the COVID-19 pandemic (Welch’s t-test) †.
Fig 2.
Key themes and codes.
Fig 3.
Visual representation of integrated claims developed for each domain.
Table 10.
Display matrix for development of the meta-inference.