Participants and recruitment
Participants were pregnant (<25 gestational weeks) Somali-born women. Exclusion criteria were severe health conditions (eg, need of specialist obstetric care or a severe mental health condition). At the first ANC appointment, midwives provided initial oral and written information to all eligible women and if agreed, the bilingual research assistant then provided in-depth information, recruited those interested to the study and obtained consent. Information materials were available in Swedish and Somali.