Ethical issues after pre-natal diagnosis.

ABSTRACT: Following pre-natal diagnosis of congenital heart defect parents and family face a dramatic psychological crisis because of their state of shock, contradictory information available on potential outcomes, limited availability of time for decisions and for autonomous choices. Counselling the parents can present additional difficulties due to influence of education, cultural and religious background, individual cognitive and emotional processes, and cross-cultural patient care is a challenging issue for the caregivers. Type and quality of messages transmitted by the caregivers determine the counselling process, with the risk of misunderstandings particularly high with reduced available evidence, or with different outcomes accordingly with the various alternatives of treatment. Since the intr

SUBMITTER: Corno AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8429854 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature