Prenatal diagnosis: Women's interactions with practitioners when severe abnormalities are discovered at birth.

CONCLUSION: Women understood the limits of technology and of the care practitioners can provide, but greatly valued practitioners' empathic and honest communications. Thus, adopting a transparent and open approach may foster trusting relationships with women/parents. In turn, this may lower the prospect of litigation being brought against practitioners when severe abnormalities are discovered at birth. PMID: 32835507 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: J Reprod Infant Psychol Source Type: research