Parental decision making regarding level of newborn screening participation in the homebirth setting.

ABSTRACT: Newborn screening (NBS) is a public health initiative (PHI) that identifies newborns with critical health conditions or deafness, allowing for intervention or life-saving treatments. Information regarding NBS education following homebirths is limited. We sought to understand homebirth parents' NBS experiences. Interview participants were recruited from Facebook through a screening questionnaire. An interpretivist paradigm was employed through narrative analysis, deriving themes from the life-experiences of homebirth clients about provision/abnegation from NBS. Five domains were identified after reading transcripts and appreciating common interviewee experiences. Subsequently, interviews were inductively double coded to highlight subthemes classified into each narrative domain. The narrativ

SUBMITTER: Platt D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12634914 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature