Sex chromosome abnormality as co-finding when performing routine prenatal diagnostic procedures: diagnostic gain or damage? Study on the views of parents and professionals.

Sex chromosome abnormality as co-finding when performing routine prenatal diagnostic procedures: diagnostic gain or damage? Study on the views of parents and professionals. - Routine fetal gender determination in prenatal testing: gain or damage?

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON31988

Enrollment

Registered

2008-08-07

Start date

2008-05-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-05-13

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

foetale geslachtsbepaling gender determination

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Age

18 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Parents that have undergone an invasive prenatal diagnostic test in the last 15 years in the Nijmegen region because of maternal age or to exclude other serious chromosomal anomalies, who were faced with a fetal sex chromosomal abnormality as a co-finding in the karyotyping procedure.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: . Patients with a clear risk at a sex chromosomal abnormality, because of an earlier child with this same problem. . Patients with insufficient fluency in Dutch.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
1.Did these parents desire to know the fetal sex after amniocenteses in week 15 of the pregnancy? 2.Were these parents willing to wait 4 weeks to know the fetal sex when sex determination would be performed by ultrasound examination in week 20 of the pregnancy? 3.How have they experienced the consequences of the diagnosis of a sexchromosomal abnormality during routine prenatal diagnostic testing? 4.How do they look back on the events and how is their general quality of life at this moment? 5. What is the opinion about this specific problem of the professionals involved?	—

Measure

Time frame

1.Did these parents desire to know the fetal sex after amniocenteses in week 15 of the pregnancy? 2.Were these parents willing to wait 4 weeks to know the fetal sex when sex determination would be performed by ultrasound examination in week 20 of the pregnancy? 3.How have they experienced the consequences of the diagnosis of a sexchromosomal abnormality during routine prenatal diagnostic testing? 4.How do they look back on the events and how is their general quality of life at this moment? 5. What is the opinion about this specific problem of the professionals involved?

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Factors associated with the parents* desire to know the sex of their baby. (ref Shipp, 2004)	—

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results