Preferences of pregnant women and obstetric healthcare professionals on using noninvasive prenatal testing to predict adverse pregnancy outcomes: a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) to screen for fetal aneuploidies by analysing cell-free DNA in maternal plasma is available to pregnant women worldwide. In the future, the scope of NIPT could potentially be expanded to the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes. The objective of this study was to assess and compare the preferences of pregnant women and obstetric healthcare professionals on this new test purpose of NIPT.

Design

A discrete choice experiment was designed to assess participants' preferences on the use of NIPT to predict adverse pregnancy outcomes regarding three attributes on test characteristics: test accuracy rate, unnecessary intervention rate and false reassurance rate. A questionnaire assessed general attitudes towards using noninvasive pre

SUBMITTER: Becking E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11752061 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature