1. Worte vor Taten -- der Stellenwert der Beratung in der Ära des Praena-Tests.
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Tschudin, Sibil
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PRENATAL diagnosis , *PREGNANT women , *PHYSICIANS , *EMOTIONS , *MEDICAL decision making , *FIRST trimester of pregnancy , *MEDICAL research - Abstract
Due to new offers in prenatal diagnostics pregnant women are forced to make choices. In Switzerland physicians are obliged to inform previous to prenatal tests and to obtain informed consent. Considering the complexity of this information and the consequences of a positive result, counselling is challenging, especially in an intercultural context. A questionnaire-based study compared information processing, test interpretation and emotional response of pregnant women from Switzerland and adjacent countries with Turkish women. Knowledge of the latter was significantly lower and they found counselling more unsettling, but their acceptance of prenatal tests was significantly higher. An empathetic approach and the right words are decisive, and counselling will even gain importance when considering the increase in options patients are confronted with. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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