Improving Perinatal Care in the Rural Regions Worldwide by Wireless Enabled Antepartum Fetal Monitoring: A Demonstration Project

Table 3

Inclusion criteria for the selection of informant subjects for the qualitative surveys.

Stakeholders	Criteria
Clinical staff	Must be a primary care physician or nurse at the 1st level of care working in a facility that belongs to the ICSS AMANECE Valladolid program, treating pregnant women; Must have approved the Virtual Diploma in Maternal and Child Health, granted by the National Polytechnic Institute and provided through ICSS’ PIEENSO platform
Pregnant women	High-risk pregnant women being cared for at Chemax Health Services facility and monitored with the fetal monitoring kit; Age: women 19 years of age and more, who represent different moments of life and thus have different views on their pregnancies: teenagers (19 to 20 years), young adults (21 to 34 years), and older adults (35 to 45 years); Educational level: literature indicates that education, particularly a woman’s schooling, is a great contributor to her and her family’s health; Health insurance: people’s insurance, IMSS, ISSSTE, or no insurance; this variable is linked directly with pregnant women’s access to healthcare services and the type of services they receive (service portability); Special population group: for instance, indigenous populations have particular cultural aspects that are not seen in other population groups
Husbands/partners of pregnant women and midwives	Related persons to the pregnant women who have influence on the healthcare access decisions (partners, husbands, or midwives)