Objectives: To compare women's understanding of different methods of expressing Down syndrome risks. Methods: A self-administered structured questionnaire given to 311 English-speaking women postpartum, at three maternity units. Understanding of numeric risk expression was assessed by women identifying whether a specified risk was higher, lower or the same as another nominated risk, expressed as two percentages, as two ratios or one of each. Perceptions of a high-risk result were obtained using display rankings of percentages and ratios. Results: Response rate was 95% (294/311). Overall, women were poor comparing numeric risks whether expressed similarly (ratio vs. ratio or percentage vs. percentage) or not. When comparing similarly e...
OBJECTIVE: To explore the prenatal trajectory and the experiences of mothers of a child with Down sy...
OBJECTIVE: To compare the experiences of women who received a screen-positive test result for Down s...
Abstract Background Down syndrome is a common chromosomal abnormality and prenatal screening can in...
Objectives: To compare women's understanding of different methods of expressing Down syndrome risks....
To gain insight into how pregnant women experience serum screening for Down syndrome, we sent questi...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of sociodemographic and health-provider factors on women's understa...
Objective To determine the knowledge of pregnant women about prenatal tests. and what tests they wou...
OBJECTIVE: To compare the experiences of women who received a screen-positive test result for Down s...
Background: Down syndrome (DS) is the most common chromosomal abnormality found in live-born babies....
Objective: Evaluating the information provision procedure about prenatal screening for Down syndrome...
Introduction: The screening of Down’s syndrome by the measurement of serum markers using dual and qu...
Objective To determine the knowledge of pregnant women about prenatal tests, and what tests they wou...
Background: Access to information about prenatal screening is important particularly in light of new...
Objective: To study pregnant women's preference among various screening options for Down syndrome (D...
Risk is a crucial concept in healthcare communication. This is attested to by a large body of resea...
OBJECTIVE: To explore the prenatal trajectory and the experiences of mothers of a child with Down sy...
OBJECTIVE: To compare the experiences of women who received a screen-positive test result for Down s...
Abstract Background Down syndrome is a common chromosomal abnormality and prenatal screening can in...
Objectives: To compare women's understanding of different methods of expressing Down syndrome risks....
To gain insight into how pregnant women experience serum screening for Down syndrome, we sent questi...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of sociodemographic and health-provider factors on women's understa...
Objective To determine the knowledge of pregnant women about prenatal tests. and what tests they wou...
OBJECTIVE: To compare the experiences of women who received a screen-positive test result for Down s...
Background: Down syndrome (DS) is the most common chromosomal abnormality found in live-born babies....
Objective: Evaluating the information provision procedure about prenatal screening for Down syndrome...
Introduction: The screening of Down’s syndrome by the measurement of serum markers using dual and qu...
Objective To determine the knowledge of pregnant women about prenatal tests, and what tests they wou...
Background: Access to information about prenatal screening is important particularly in light of new...
Objective: To study pregnant women's preference among various screening options for Down syndrome (D...
Risk is a crucial concept in healthcare communication. This is attested to by a large body of resea...
OBJECTIVE: To explore the prenatal trajectory and the experiences of mothers of a child with Down sy...
OBJECTIVE: To compare the experiences of women who received a screen-positive test result for Down s...
Abstract Background Down syndrome is a common chromosomal abnormality and prenatal screening can in...