The effects of ethnicity, education and an informational video on pregnant women's knowledge and decisions about a prenatal diagnostic screening test Export

@article{citeulike:908462, abstract = {Prenatal screening for genetic disease and developmental disabilities is rapidly becoming a routine part of the management of low-risk pregnancies. Yet research on how to best inform pregnant women about these tests and their special ethical entailments remains sparse. We asked 130 low-risk pregnant women of diverse ethnic and social class backgrounds a series of questions about a prenatal test they had been offered within the previous 3 months. All had been given an informational booklet about the test at the time it was offered; about half also saw a video. We found that neither group of women retained much of the information they had received about the prenatal screening but that those who saw the video remembered more. Information-retention also varied significantly by ethnicity and level of education.}, author = {Browner, C. H. and Preloran, Mabel and Press, Nancy A.}, citeulike-article-id = {908462}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0738-3991(95)00796-2}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TBC-3VXHJND-3/2/b67e6aa73695d611423cec8222598659}, doi = {10.1016/0738-3991(95)00796-2}, journal = {Patient Education and Counseling}, keywords = {ethnicity, ethnicity-and-medical-care, genetic-testing, pregnant-women, prenatal-diagnostic-screening-test, prenatal-screening, video-instruction}, month = {March}, number = {2}, pages = {135--146}, posted-at = {2006-10-20 19:38:43}, priority = {2}, title = {The effects of ethnicity, education and an informational video on pregnant women's knowledge and decisions about a prenatal diagnostic screening test}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0738-3991(95)00796-2}, volume = {27}, year = {1996} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:908462 L3 - citeulike-article-id:908462 N2 - Prenatal screening for genetic disease and developmental disabilities is rapidly becoming a routine part of the management of low-risk pregnancies. Yet research on how to best inform pregnant women about these tests and their special ethical entailments remains sparse. We asked 130 low-risk pregnant women of diverse ethnic and social class backgrounds a series of questions about a prenatal test they had been offered within the previous 3 months. All had been given an informational booklet about the test at the time it was offered; about half also saw a video. We found that neither group of women retained much of the information they had received about the prenatal screening but that those who saw the video remembered more. Information-retention also varied significantly by ethnicity and level of education. IS - 2 JF - Patient Education and Counseling EP - 146 TI - The effects of ethnicity, education and an informational video on pregnant women's knowledge and decisions about a prenatal diagnostic screening test VL - 27 SP - 135 KW - ethnicity KW - ethnicity-and-medical-care KW - genetic-testing KW - pregnant-women KW - prenatal-diagnostic-screening-test KW - prenatal-screening KW - video-instruction AU - Browner, CH AU - Preloran, Mabel AU - Press, Nancy PY - 1996/03// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0738-3991(95)00796-2 ER -