A Review of Creative Play Interventions to Improve Children's Hospital Experience and Wellbeing.

Context: Being in the hospital can be stressful for children and caregivers. Evidence-based play interventions to reduce this stress, such as play therapy or Child Life services, have been introduced in hospitals globally, with growing awareness of potential benefits.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of nonmedical/illness-specific creative or play-based programs in hospital settings on children's (<18 years) and their caregivers' hospital experiences, wellbeing, and other health outcomes.

Mothers of a child with Down syndrome: A qualitative analysis of the perspectives on non-invasive prenatal testing.

Objective: The introduction of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for Down syndrome (DS) has sparked social and ethical debates. To date, in-depth exploration of the voices of Australian mothers of a child with DS about NIPT has been lacking. The purpose of this study was to investigate the perspectives of Australian mothers of a child with DS towards the increasing availability of NIPT.

'We would have missed out so much had we terminated': What fathers of a child with Down syndrome think about current non-invasive prenatal testing for Down syndrome.

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) allows early, accurate diagnosis of Down syndrome that has resulted in increased terminations. This qualitative study involved in-depth interviews of fathers of children with Down syndrome about their views on the availability of NIPT. Thematic network analysis revealed that although fathers appreciated an early diagnosis with NIPT, they saw the test as being a predetermined pathway to termination.