Views of Canadian healthcare professionals on the future uses of non-invasive prenatal testing: a mixed method study.

ABSTRACT: Non-invasive prenatal testing's (NIPT) potential to screen for a wide range of conditions is receiving growing attention. This study explores Canadian healthcare professionals' perceptions towards NIPT's current and possible future uses, including paternity testing, sex determination, and fetal whole genome sequencing. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten healthcare professionals, and another 184 participated in a survey. The triangulation of our findings shows that there is considerable agreement among healthcare professionals on expanding NIPT use for medical conditions including fetal aneuploidies and monogenic diseases, but not for non-medical conditions (sex determination for non-medical reasons and paternity testing), nor for risk predisposition information (late onset

SUBMITTER: Haidar H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9626560 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature