[Perceived needs of women regarding maternity. Qualitative study to redesign maternal education].

Objectives: To assess women's perceptions of their needs during the process of becoming a mother and identify what they want from maternal education.

Design: Qualitative study with focus groups.

Setting: Bizkaia health region, Basque Health Service (Osakidetza), Spain.

Patients' opinions about knowing their risk for depression and what to do about it. The predictD-qualitative study.

Background: The predictD study developed and validated a risk algorithm for predicting the onset of major depression in primary care. We aimed to explore the opinion of patients about knowing their risk for depression and the values and criteria upon which these opinions are based.

Methods: A maximum variation sample of patients was taken, stratified by city, age, gender, immigrant status, socio-economic status and lifetime depression.

[Views of patients diagnosed with depression and cared for by general practitioners and psychiatrists].

Objectives: To explore the experiences of patients treated for depression either by general practitioners (GPs) or psychiatrists (Ps) with the aim of identifying improvement strategies.

Design: Health services research-oriented qualitative methodology. Exploratory design.

[Family doctors and psychiatrists and the patient with depression: the need to re-adjust health care approaches and organisational dynamics].

Objectives: To find out the perceptions of family doctors (FD) and psychiatrists (PS) on their inter-relationships in the health care of patients with depression.

Design: Qualitative methodology. Exploratory design based on FD and PS discussion groups (DG).

Design and process of the EMA Cohort Study: the value of antenatal education in childbirth and breastfeeding.

Background: Antenatal education (AE) started more than 30 years ago with the purpose of decreasing pain during childbirth. Epidural anaesthesia has achieved this objective, and the value of AE is therefore currently questioned. This article describes the protocol and process of a study designed to assess AE results today.