Maternity care professionals’ views on good counselling for prenatal anomaly screening: a qualitative inquiry
Most participants consider that in good counselling, important themes are providing information as a mechanism, and parents making their own free choices as an outcome. The results and discourse reflect a more non-directive attitude before and during the decision-making process. Since a non-directive attitude can complicate parents' more autonomous decision-making, we suggest paying attention to more directive guidance by providing structure to facilitate parents' more autonomous decision-making.
Authors
- Janneke T. Gitsels-van der Wal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5742-7246)
- Linda Gore Martin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7696-5068)
- Joyce Kors (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4170)
- Lidewij Henneman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3531-0597)
- S.G. van der Linden
- Rashmi A. Kusurkar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9382-0379)
- Corine J. M. Verhoeven (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0001-0888)
- Saskia M. Peerdeman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5691-3210)
- Petra Bakker
- Evi Oosterhoorn
Institutions
- University of Nottingham (GB)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Amsterdam Neuroscience (NL)
- Academie Verloskunde Amsterdam Groningen (NL)
- Máxima Medisch Centrum (NL)
- GGD Amsterdam (NL)
- Amsterdam University Medical Centers (NL)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Medical Education
- Published
- 2025-10-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-025-08036-3
- Primary Topic
- Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00