期刊
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
卷 10, 期 15, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jcm10153423
关键词
COVID-19 pandemic; fetal congenital heart disease; prenatal diagnosis; parental counseling
资金
- Open Access Publishing Fund of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
This study surveyed parents from four national tertiary medical care centers using a validated questionnaire, and found that parents counseled during the pandemic for fetal congenital heart disease showed significantly increased concern and uncertainty about their child's diagnosis and therapy, as well as a greater need for written and/or online information.
The COVID-19 pandemic impacts health care providers in multiple ways, even specialties that do not seem to be affected primarily, such as fetal cardiac services. We aimed to assess the effects on parental counseling for fetal congenital heart disease (CHD). In this multicenter study, we used a validated questionnaire. Parents were recruited from four national tertiary medical care centers (n = 226); n = 169 had been counseled before and n = 57 during the pandemic. Overall counseling success including its dimensions did not differ between the two groups (p = n.s.). However, by applying the sorrow scale, we could demonstrate that parents counseled during the pandemic were significantly more concerned (p = 0.025) and unsure (p = 0.044) about their child's diagnosis, therapy and outcome. Furthermore, parents expressed a significantly increased need for written and/or online information on fetal heart disease (p = 0.034). Other modifiers did not affect counseling success (p = n.s.). We demonstrate that the COVID-19 pandemic impacts effectiveness of parental counseling for fetal CHD, possibly by altering parental perceptions. This needs to be taken into consideration when counseling. Implementing alternative and innovative approaches (e.g., online conference or virtual reality tools) may aid in facilitating high-quality services in critical times such as in the present pandemic.
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