Avtor/Urednik		Resman, Anita; Škreblin-Ulčar, Mateja
Naslov		Psihološki odziv nosečnic na prenatalne presejalne preiskave za odkrivanje Downovega sindroma pri plodu
Tip		monografija
Kraj izdaje		Ljubljana
Založnik		Medicinska fakulteta
Leto izdaje		2001
Obseg		str. 70
Jezik		slo
Abstrakt		Background. Antenatal care comprises a number of screening tests for diagnosis of some types of fetal anomalies. Such tests may lead to many social, psychological and ethical problems. The tests affect the motherto-be, her partner, family and the unborn baby. They increase anxiety, which may preserve following either the positive or negative finding of screening tests. Down's syndrome is one of the most clinica(ly important chromosomal abnormalities, for which there exist two prenatal screening tests, these are triple marker test and nuchal translucency measurement. We are using them for estimating the risk of bearing an affected child. Prenatal screening tests need to be sufficiently sensitive and specific to provide meaningful guidance. Aim and hypothesis. The screening tests are undoable useful, but there is a little known about their psychological effects on pregnant women. The level of anxiety is during pregnancy already high. Many questions take rise if it is reasonable to expose a young pregnant woman, without genetic taint of bearing an affected child, to physical and psychological strains which screening tests bring with. The strains are even greater when there are false positive results. The aim of the survey is to determinate whether levels of anxiety are higher in-group of women, which take part in screening tests, compared to women, which have not decided for those tests. Our hypotheses are: Hypothesis 1. The level of woman's anxiety is changing during the process of triple test. Hypothesis 2. Physical and mental awareness of pregnant women is changing during procedure of maternal serum screening test and measurement of nuchal translucency. Hypothesis 3. There are no differences in the level of anxiety and mental awareness between pregnant women, which take part in screening test and those, which doesn't. Hypothesis 4. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters).
Deskriptorji		PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS DOWN SYNDROME MASS SCREENING INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL ANXIETY PREGNANCY