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The Cognitive Approach to Bioethical Issues in Perinatal Care in Greece

Background and aim: Current practice in prenatal diagnosis becomes challenging with new bioethics issues emerging constantly during daily clinical routine. Although fetal interventions are driven by a motivation to improve the health of the fetus, progress in fetal therapies raises issues of materna...

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Autores principales: Glynou, Anna, Frysira, Elena, Christakakou-Fotiadi, Kalliopi, Eleftheriadis, Makarios, Sarella, Angeliki, Stergiotou, Iosifina, Koukaki, Maria, Chasalevri, Eirini, Galatis, Dionysios, Salakos, Nicolaos
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Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8973825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35371863
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22760
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author Glynou, Anna
Frysira, Elena
Christakakou-Fotiadi, Kalliopi
Eleftheriadis, Makarios
Sarella, Angeliki
Stergiotou, Iosifina
Koukaki, Maria
Chasalevri, Eirini
Galatis, Dionysios
Salakos, Nicolaos
author_facet Glynou, Anna
Frysira, Elena
Christakakou-Fotiadi, Kalliopi
Eleftheriadis, Makarios
Sarella, Angeliki
Stergiotou, Iosifina
Koukaki, Maria
Chasalevri, Eirini
Galatis, Dionysios
Salakos, Nicolaos
author_sort Glynou, Anna
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description Background and aim: Current practice in prenatal diagnosis becomes challenging with new bioethics issues emerging constantly during daily clinical routine. Although fetal interventions are driven by a motivation to improve the health of the fetus, progress in fetal therapies raises issues of maternal autonomy. The objective of this article is to assess bioethics in prenatal diagnosis in Greece as well as bioethics education. Methods: The study was conducted between October 2018 and December 2019. Two hundred and twenty eligible responders were involved in fetal and perinatal medicine in Greece. The questionnaire was developed as a Likert scale. Part 1 covered the participants' general opinion about bioethics. Part 2 covered ethical dilemmas likely to arise when routine screening presents a complicated result. Results: In the study, 92.3% of the participants considered that the branch of bioethics is necessary in medical practice. Regarding challenging bioethics issues, only 86% of the participants consider that the miscarriage risk should be discussed after an invasive procedure. Furthermore, it is not clear for responders whether informed consent is a medical or legal obligation (43% vs 33%) and whether information should be provided orally or written (49% vs 46%). Finally, 32% of healthcare practitioners declare that they are not fully aware of the law concerning the rights of the fetus. Conclusions: Although healthcare professionals acknowledge the distinct role of bioethics, mismanagement of ethical dilemmas reveals that under-graduate teaching of this discipline is not addressed effectively. Identifying the parameters that would improve the learning process would make a significant contribution in the routine clinical practice.
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spelling pubmed-89738252022-04-01 The Cognitive Approach to Bioethical Issues in Perinatal Care in Greece Glynou, Anna Frysira, Elena Christakakou-Fotiadi, Kalliopi Eleftheriadis, Makarios Sarella, Angeliki Stergiotou, Iosifina Koukaki, Maria Chasalevri, Eirini Galatis, Dionysios Salakos, Nicolaos Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology Background and aim: Current practice in prenatal diagnosis becomes challenging with new bioethics issues emerging constantly during daily clinical routine. Although fetal interventions are driven by a motivation to improve the health of the fetus, progress in fetal therapies raises issues of maternal autonomy. The objective of this article is to assess bioethics in prenatal diagnosis in Greece as well as bioethics education. Methods: The study was conducted between October 2018 and December 2019. Two hundred and twenty eligible responders were involved in fetal and perinatal medicine in Greece. The questionnaire was developed as a Likert scale. Part 1 covered the participants' general opinion about bioethics. Part 2 covered ethical dilemmas likely to arise when routine screening presents a complicated result. Results: In the study, 92.3% of the participants considered that the branch of bioethics is necessary in medical practice. Regarding challenging bioethics issues, only 86% of the participants consider that the miscarriage risk should be discussed after an invasive procedure. Furthermore, it is not clear for responders whether informed consent is a medical or legal obligation (43% vs 33%) and whether information should be provided orally or written (49% vs 46%). Finally, 32% of healthcare practitioners declare that they are not fully aware of the law concerning the rights of the fetus. Conclusions: Although healthcare professionals acknowledge the distinct role of bioethics, mismanagement of ethical dilemmas reveals that under-graduate teaching of this discipline is not addressed effectively. Identifying the parameters that would improve the learning process would make a significant contribution in the routine clinical practice. Cureus 2022-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8973825/ /pubmed/35371863 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22760 Text en Copyright © 2022, Glynou et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Glynou, Anna
Frysira, Elena
Christakakou-Fotiadi, Kalliopi
Eleftheriadis, Makarios
Sarella, Angeliki
Stergiotou, Iosifina
Koukaki, Maria
Chasalevri, Eirini
Galatis, Dionysios
Salakos, Nicolaos
The Cognitive Approach to Bioethical Issues in Perinatal Care in Greece
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title_sort cognitive approach to bioethical issues in perinatal care in greece
topic Obstetrics/Gynecology
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35371863
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22760
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