Views health care providers about prenatal screening

Background: Considering the importance of prenatal screening as one of the most important parts of health care And the impact of health service providers in view of information and advancing the process of consultation in this process This study was conducted to evaluate the providers perspective.Methods: : This descriptive study conducted in 1395 with the participation of 472 Health care workers in Sari . These included 270 general practitioners, 135 midwives and 67 obstetricians and the average age of these participation was 40/50. Data collection in this study is assessment questionnaire which its validity and content validity, content validity by a panel of experts and the methods of internal consistency and retest reliability were satisfied. To analyze the data descriptive statistics (frequency, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (chi-square test to determine the relationship between qualitative variables and analysis of variance between quantitative and qualitative variables) were used.Result: According to a study carried out 93/8 percent of the participants agreed with the usefulness of screening before birth, 90/5 percent of participants agree with the explanation of prenatal screening methods to clients, 86/5 percent of participants agree with the explanation of abnormalities detected by screening methods available to parents, 17/4 percent of the participants disagreed with the description of the negative consequences of screening techniques for clients And 14 percent of participants were opposed by explaining the predictive value of the test for clients Conclusion: Considering the importance of midwives and doctors as the first line of contact with pregnant women, It is hoped that this study provide appropriate feedback to policymakers in the field of health to improve the prenatal screening process

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health care providere ، informed choice ، prenatal screening