Parents' Perspectives on Counseling for Fetal Heart Disease: What Matters Most?

After diagnosis of congenital heart disease (CHD) in the fetus, effective counseling is considered mandatory. We sought to investigate which factors, including parental social variables, significantly affect counseling outcome. A total of = 226 parents were recruited prospectively from four national tertiary medical care centers.

Fetal Cardiac Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Does It Affect Parental Counseling?

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.

Objective Assessment of Counselling for Fetal Heart Defects: An Interdisciplinary Multicenter Study.

The objective of this study was to analyze parental counselling for fetal heart disease in an interdisciplinary and multicenter setting using a validated questionnaire covering medical, sociodemographic, and psychological aspects. = 168 individuals were recruited from two pediatric heart centers and two obstetrics units. Overall, counselling was combined successful and satisfying in >99%; only 0.