Article ; Online: Effect of written outcome information on attitude of perinatal healthcare professionals at the limit of viability: a randomized study.
2019 Volume 20, Issue 1, Page(s) 74
Abstract: Background: Differences in perception and potential disagreements between parents and professionals regarding the attitude for resuscitation at the limit of viability are common. This study evaluated in healthcare professionals whether the decision to ... ...
| Abstract | Background: Differences in perception and potential disagreements between parents and professionals regarding the attitude for resuscitation at the limit of viability are common. This study evaluated in healthcare professionals whether the decision to resuscitate at the limit of viability (intensive care versus comfort care) are influenced by the way information on incurred risks is given or received. Methods: This is a prospective randomized controlled study. This study evaluated the attitude of healthcare professionals by testing the effect of information given through graphic fact sheets formulated either optimistically or pessimistically. The written educational fact sheet included three graphical presentations of survival and complication/morbidity by gestational age. The questionnaire was submitted over a period of 4 months to 5 and 6-year medical students from the Geneva University as well as physicians and nurses of the neonatal unit at the University Hospitals of Geneva. Our sample included 102 healthcare professionals. Results: Forty-nine responders (48%) were students (response rate of 33.1%), 32 (31%) paediatricians (response rate of 91.4%) and 21 (20%) nurses in NICU (response rate of 50%). The received risk tended to be more severe in both groups compared to the graphically presented facts and current guidelines, although optimistic representation favoured the perception of "survival without disability" at 23 to 25 weeks. Therapeutic attitudes did not differ between groups, but healthcare professionals with children were more restrained and students more aggressive at very low gestational ages. Conclusion: Written information on mortality and morbidity given to healthcare professionals in graphic form encourages them to overestimate the risk. However, perception in healthcare staff may not be directly transferable to parental perception during counselling as the later are usually naïve to the data received. This parental information are always communicated in ways that subtly shape the decisions that follow. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Adult ; Attitude of Health Personnel ; Decision Making ; Female ; Gestational Age ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Infant, Premature ; Intensive Care, Neonatal ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Nurses/psychology ; Optimism ; Patient Education as Topic/methods ; Pediatricians/psychology ; Perinatal Care/organization & administration ; Perinatal Care/standards ; Pessimism ; Prospective Studies ; Resuscitation/psychology ; Students, Medical/psychology |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2019-10-22 |
| Publishing country | England |
| Document type | Journal Article ; Randomized Controlled Trial |
| ZDB-ID | 2041552-7 |
| ISSN | 1472-6939 ; 1472-6939 |
| ISSN (online) | 1472-6939 |
| ISSN | 1472-6939 |
| DOI | 10.1186/s12910-019-0413-7 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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