To neutrally offer or strongly recommend? General practitioners' perspectives on screening for gestational diabetes according to the national guideline in Norway.

Autor: Forthun I; Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.; Department of Disease Burden, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway., Møen KA; Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway., Hjörleifsson S; Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.; Research Unit for General Practice Bergen, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scandinavian journal of primary health care [Scand J Prim Health Care] 2024 Jul 15, pp. 1-9. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 15.
DOI: 10.1080/02813432.2024.2378204
Abstrakt: Objective: To explore general practitioners' experiences and reflections on how the current Norwegian guideline for screening for gestational diabetes affects their clinical practice.
Design: A qualitive study in which data were collected through semi-structured focus group interviews and analyzed thematically.
Setting and Subjects: Five focus groups conducted in 2020 among GPs in Norway; three interviews took place face-to-face and two were held digitally. The total number of participants was 31.
Results: GPs acknowledged the potential benefits of more extensive screening, but had concerns about the medicalization of pregnancy, stating that some women experienced considerable anxiety. The GPs expressed doubts about the guideline's evidence base but differed in how they interpreted what the guideline was asking them to do. Some offered eligible women the opportunity to be screened, while other set up a screening appointment without consulting the women first. For some, fear of incrimination made them recommend screening without being convinced that it was the right thing for the patient.
Conclusions: It is unclear whether the guideline for gestational diabetes requires GPs to recommend screening to pregnant women or if they should provide neutral information about the availability of screening. This ambiguity should be addressed, and the guideline evaluated against the core principles of general practice.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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