http://childrenshospitalblog.org/the-impact-of-prenatal-testing-for-down-syndrome/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:25:47 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://childrenshospitalblog.org/the-impact-of-prenatal-testing-for-down-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-640 Barb Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:06:13 +0000 http://childrenshospitalblog.org/?p=1218#comment-640 One of my concerns is the ways that prenatal testing is offered and how to develop enhanced strategies for helping women to decide whether testing feels "right" for them. I am currently conducting an NIH study of pregnant women ambivalent about testing to learn whether deliberate or less deliberate approaches to making a decision may be most useful. Our goal is to enhance the concordance of decisions with women's values and beliefs. I do hope that you will consider posting this so that if pregnant women visit your site and are not certain whether they want to have prenatal testing, they will consider participating in our study. It takes about 30 minutes. Our goal is not to encourage decisions to be tested but rather to encourage women to make decisions that suit them. The survey is anonymous and available on-line at the following link: http://research.nhgri.nih.gov/SBRB/Prenatal/ Thank you, Barb Biesecker One of my concerns is the ways that prenatal testing is offered and how to develop enhanced strategies for helping women to decide whether testing feels “right” for them. I am currently conducting an NIH study of pregnant women ambivalent about testing to learn whether deliberate or less deliberate approaches to making a decision may be most useful. Our goal is to enhance the concordance of decisions with women’s values and beliefs. I do hope that you will consider posting this so that if pregnant women visit your site and are not certain whether they want to have prenatal testing, they will consider participating in our study. It takes about 30 minutes. Our goal is not to encourage decisions to be tested but rather to encourage women to make decisions that suit them.
The survey is anonymous and available on-line at the following link:
http://research.nhgri.nih.gov/SBRB/Prenatal/
Thank you, Barb Biesecker

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