NCT05202639

Decision-making Regarding the Possibility of Medical Termination of Pregnancy

Decision-making Regarding the Possibility of Medical Termination of Pregnancy on Two Multidisciplinary Prenatal Diagnosis Centers of Maternities Level 3 in Lyon in 2019

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 74 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to improve professional practices by better understanding parents who face the choice of medical termination of pregnancy. The hypothesis of the study is that the decision to continue the pregnancy with a serious fetal pathology is more based on the belief and the representations of parents than on the diagnosis or prognosis criteria of the fetus. A better understanding of the parents' motivations on their decision making by knowing what they expect from the caregivers would allow the division of representations, a better prenatal advice and a better perinatal support.

Conditions

• Medical Termination of Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionnaire	A questionnaire will be sent by e-mail to the mother and to the father separately. A return of the completed questionnaire is expected within 6 weeks via a secure internal platform pertained to the HCL ("Hospices Civils de Lyon"). The aim of this questionnaire is to identify the factors associated with the continuation or not of pregnancy after diagnosis of severe fetal pathology and after legal authorization of medical termination of pregnancy given by the Multidisciplinary Center of Prenatal Diagnosis.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-15
• Primary completion: 2022-02-22
• Completion: 2022-02-22
• First posted: 2022-01-21
• Last updated: 2022-09-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France