Provision of Pre-pregnancy Care for Women with Pre-existing Diabetes in Lagos, Nigeria: An Exploratory Qualitative Study

Table 2. Inter-rater reliability check.

Research question 1: How do HBPs define PPC for women with diabetes?
Interview question	Themes	Subthemes	Verbal Support/ Participants	Rater 1		Rater 2		Comment
				Agree	Disagree	Agree	Disagree
Can you please share with me your understanding of pre-pregnancy care’’	Clinical importance of PPC for women with diabetes	Safe motherhood	‘‘…pre-pregnancy care is that care you give to a woman who is intending to get pregnant you know to achieve you know safe motherhood, the complication free pregnancy...’’ *Nurse P13*	√		√		nil
			‘‘The standard is for every woman trying to get pregnant, the glucose control must be optimal in terms of the fasting plasma glucose, random plasma glucose and the HbA1C, all women aspiring or emm desirous of getting pregnant must be well controlleds before they achieve pregnancy...’’ *Doctor P3*	√		√		nil