Evaluating the Use of a Decision Aid for Parents Facing Extremely Premature Delivery: A Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess decisional conflict and knowledge about prematurity among mothers facing extreme premature delivery when the counseling clinicians were randomized to counsel using a validated decision aid compared with usual counseling.

Study design

In this randomized trial, clinicians at 5 level III neonatal intensive care units in the US were randomized to supplement counseling using the decision aid or to counsel mothers in their usual manner. We enrolled mothers with threatened premature delivery at 22^0/7 to 25^6/7 weeks of gestation within 7 days of their counseling. The primary outcome was the Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS) score. One hundred mothers per group were enrolled to detect a clinically relevant effect size of 0.4 in the Decisional C

SUBMITTER: Guillen U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6625526 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature