Frequency of themes in women with cardiac disease in pregnancy identified in the literature
| Publication | Women’s autonomy and control (theme 1) | Self-care and risk awareness in pregnancy (theme 2) | Social support for decision-making (theme 3) | Healthcare experiences (theme 4) | |||||
| Taking charge of decision-making (Subthemes 1) | Lack of control (Subthemes 2) | Emotional uncertainty of decision-making (Subthemes 3) | Helplessness, fear and vulnerability (Subthemes 4) | Health information needs (Subthemes 5) | Responsive care (Subthemes 6) | Listening to women (Subthemes 7) | |||
| Congenital heart disease | |||||||||
| Andersen et al,18 2008 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Claessens et al,19 2005 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| Gantt,20 2002 | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| Gantt,21 1992 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Ngu et al,24 2014 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| Ngu et al,25 2014 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| Other acquired heart disease | |||||||||
| Dekker et al,22 2016 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Hess et al,26 2010 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Hess et al,27 2012 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| Patel, Berg et al,28 2016 | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| Patel, Schaufelberge et al,23 2016 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||