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Prenatal Ultrasound Screening and Women’s Expectations: an Original Study

BACKGROUND: Prenatal screening offers crucial information about the pregnancy, although sometimes brings forth ethical issues and potentially difficult decisions for pregnant women. Ultrasound screening during pregnancy is both of particular importance and a great challenge. OBJECTIVE: The objective...

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Autores principales: Glynou, Anna, Galatis, Dionysios, Christakakou-Fotiadi, Kalliopi, Yalelis, Vassilis, Varvarigos, Ioannis E, Antonios, Kondylios, Angeliki, Sarella, Makarios, Eleftheriades, Eirini, Chasalevri, Maria, Koukaki, Nicolaos, Salakos
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9478537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36199849
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2022.34.136-141
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author Glynou, Anna
Galatis, Dionysios
Christakakou-Fotiadi, Kalliopi
Yalelis, Vassilis
Varvarigos, Ioannis E
Antonios, Kondylios
Angeliki, Sarella
Makarios, Eleftheriades
Eirini, Chasalevri
Maria, Koukaki
Nicolaos, Salakos
author_facet Glynou, Anna
Galatis, Dionysios
Christakakou-Fotiadi, Kalliopi
Yalelis, Vassilis
Varvarigos, Ioannis E
Antonios, Kondylios
Angeliki, Sarella
Makarios, Eleftheriades
Eirini, Chasalevri
Maria, Koukaki
Nicolaos, Salakos
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description BACKGROUND: Prenatal screening offers crucial information about the pregnancy, although sometimes brings forth ethical issues and potentially difficult decisions for pregnant women. Ultrasound screening during pregnancy is both of particular importance and a great challenge. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to assess women’s knowledge and expectations regarding prenatal ultrasound screening in Greece. METHODS: The study was conducted between May 2019 and January 2020. Three hundred pregnant women >18 years of age with complete antenatal routine screening, were invited to participate. The questionnaire contained sociodemographic and obstetric history information and highlighted the background knowledge of pregnant women in prenatal screening. RESULTS: In this study, women with university or technological education mentioned in a greater proportion the importance of prenatal screening regarding prevention and treatment of intrauterine diseases. The belief that the pain or sorrow to give birth to a disabled child or one with a genetic disorder might lead parents to the decision to terminate the pregnancy, was supported more by women with a higher educational level. CONCLUSION: Pregnant women place a great deal of trust in their physician, as a source of information for the fetal well-being. The majority consider prenatal testing mandatory for that matter. Finally, an association between women who abide with prenatal screening and their educational level was noted. Thus, it’s more common women who have a higher educational level to seek prenatal screening, than those with lower education level.
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spelling pubmed-94785372022-10-04 Prenatal Ultrasound Screening and Women’s Expectations: an Original Study Glynou, Anna Galatis, Dionysios Christakakou-Fotiadi, Kalliopi Yalelis, Vassilis Varvarigos, Ioannis E Antonios, Kondylios Angeliki, Sarella Makarios, Eleftheriades Eirini, Chasalevri Maria, Koukaki Nicolaos, Salakos Mater Sociomed Original Paper BACKGROUND: Prenatal screening offers crucial information about the pregnancy, although sometimes brings forth ethical issues and potentially difficult decisions for pregnant women. Ultrasound screening during pregnancy is both of particular importance and a great challenge. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to assess women’s knowledge and expectations regarding prenatal ultrasound screening in Greece. METHODS: The study was conducted between May 2019 and January 2020. Three hundred pregnant women >18 years of age with complete antenatal routine screening, were invited to participate. The questionnaire contained sociodemographic and obstetric history information and highlighted the background knowledge of pregnant women in prenatal screening. RESULTS: In this study, women with university or technological education mentioned in a greater proportion the importance of prenatal screening regarding prevention and treatment of intrauterine diseases. The belief that the pain or sorrow to give birth to a disabled child or one with a genetic disorder might lead parents to the decision to terminate the pregnancy, was supported more by women with a higher educational level. CONCLUSION: Pregnant women place a great deal of trust in their physician, as a source of information for the fetal well-being. The majority consider prenatal testing mandatory for that matter. Finally, an association between women who abide with prenatal screening and their educational level was noted. Thus, it’s more common women who have a higher educational level to seek prenatal screening, than those with lower education level. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2022-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9478537/ /pubmed/36199849 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2022.34.136-141 Text en © 2022 Anna Glynou, Dionysios Galatis, Kalliopi Christakakou-Fotiadi, Vassilis Yalelis, Ioannis E. Varvarigos, Antonios Kondylios, Angeliki Sarella, Makarios Eleftheriades, Eirini Chasalevri, Maria Koukaki, Nicolaos Salakos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Glynou, Anna
Galatis, Dionysios
Christakakou-Fotiadi, Kalliopi
Yalelis, Vassilis
Varvarigos, Ioannis E
Antonios, Kondylios
Angeliki, Sarella
Makarios, Eleftheriades
Eirini, Chasalevri
Maria, Koukaki
Nicolaos, Salakos
Prenatal Ultrasound Screening and Women’s Expectations: an Original Study
title Prenatal Ultrasound Screening and Women’s Expectations: an Original Study
title_full Prenatal Ultrasound Screening and Women’s Expectations: an Original Study
title_fullStr Prenatal Ultrasound Screening and Women’s Expectations: an Original Study
title_full_unstemmed Prenatal Ultrasound Screening and Women’s Expectations: an Original Study
title_short Prenatal Ultrasound Screening and Women’s Expectations: an Original Study
title_sort prenatal ultrasound screening and women’s expectations: an original study
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9478537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36199849
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2022.34.136-141
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