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How do prospective parents prefer to receive information about prenatal screening and diagnostic testing?
Author(s) -
Willis A. M.,
Smith S. K.,
Meiser B.,
Muller C.,
Lewis S.,
Halliday J.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
prenatal diagnosis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.956
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1097-0223
pISSN - 0197-3851
DOI - 10.1002/pd.4493
Subject(s) - prenatal screening , medicine , health information , family medicine , face (sociological concept) , psychology , internet privacy , pregnancy , health care , prenatal diagnosis , computer science , fetus , genetics , biology , social science , sociology , economics , economic growth
What's already known about this topic? Women prefer to receive information about prenatal testing options face‐to‐face from a health professional. Increasing numbers of people are accessing health‐related information online.What does this study add? In spite of increased online access of health information, both women and partners still prefer to receive information about prenatal testing options face‐to‐face. High rates of information seeking were observed among pregnant women and partners, despite seemingly high satisfaction with information provided.