Counsellors’ practices in donor sperm treatment
| Autor: | Marja Visser, Fulco van der Veen, Monique H. Mochtar, Trudie Gerrits |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D), Graduate School, Center for Reproductive Medicine, Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body (AISSR, FMG) |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Counseling Male Decision Making 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Disclosure 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Humans Individual knowledge Medical education 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine Sperm Banks Obstetrics and Gynecology General Medicine Focus Groups Middle Aged Focus group Tissue Donors Counselors Policy Reproductive Medicine Female Thematic analysis Psychology Psychosocial Donor sperm Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Human fertility (Cambridge, England), 22(4), 255-265. Taylor and Francis Ltd. Human Fertility, 22(4), 255-265. Taylor and Francis Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 1742-8149 1464-7273 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14647273.2018.1449970 |
| Popis: | When intended parents choose to have donor sperm treatment (DST), this may entail wide-ranging and long-lasting psychosocial implications related to the social parent not having a genetic tie with the child, how to disclose donor-conception and future donor contact. Counselling by qualified professionals is recommended to help intended parents cope with these implications. The objective of this study is to present findings and insights about how counsellors execute their counselling practices. We performed a qualitative study that included 13 counsellors working in the 11 clinics offering DST in the Netherlands. We held a focus group discussion and individual face-to-face semi-structured interviews, which were fully transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. The counsellors combined screening for eligibility and guidance within one session. They acted according to their individual knowledge and clinical experience and had different opinions on the issues they discussed with intended parents, which resulted in large practice variations. The counsellors were dependent on the admission policies of the clinics, which were mainly limited to regulating access to psychosocial counselling, which also lead to a variety of counselling practices. This means that evidence-based guidelines on counselling in DST need to be developed to provide consistent counselling with less practice variation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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