Antenatal counselling for prospective parents whose fetus has a neurological anomaly: part 1, experiences and recommendations for service design
| Autor: | Patricia de Lacy, Nicola Foulds, David T. Howe, Chakra Vasudevan, Paul D. Griffiths, Brigitte Vollmer, Hilary Piercy, Anthony R Hart, Sally Boxall |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Counseling
Parents medicine.medical_specialty Medical terminology business.industry Service design Emotions Brain Nervous System Malformations Developmental Neuroscience Pregnancy Prenatal Diagnosis Family medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Health care medicine Humans Female Neurology (clinical) business Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 64:14-22 |
| ISSN: | 1469-8749 0012-1622 |
| Popis: | Prospective parents whose fetus is diagnosed with a neurological anomaly go through a complex range of emotions. They describe their discussions of antenatal counselling from health care professionals as focusing too much on the nature of the anomaly involving unintelligible medical terminology, when what they really want is a picture of the best- and worst-case scenarios. Whilst information on the level of risk for their fetus is important, it is not the parents' primary concern. When statistics for risk are given, they may not be as well understood as the health care professionals think. This review discusses the published evidence on antenatal counselling and recommendations for explaining risk to parents of fetuses with neurological anomalies. From this data we make recommendations for the organization of antenatal counselling services. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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