Preparing Heart and Mind Following Prenatal Diagnosis of Complex Congenital Heart Defect
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Experiences of informational needs and received information following a prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defect
OBJECTIVE To explore the need for information and what information was actually received following prenatal diagnosis of a congenital heart defect, in a country where termination of pregnancy beyond 22 weeks of gestation is not easily possible because of legal constraints. METHODS Twenty-six Swedish-speaking pregnant women (n = 14) and partners (n = 12) were consecutively recruited for semi-s...
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Carlsson, T. 2017. To Grasp the Unexpected. Information Following a Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Defect in the Fetus. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1362. 70 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0050-4. The aim was to explore experiences and needs of information following a prenatal diagnosis of congenital ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Qualitative Health Research
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1049-7323,1552-7557
DOI: 10.1177/1049732312458371