How Will Primigravida Parents and Multigravida Parents Differ in Their Feelings About Pre-Test Group Genetic Counseling Sessions for Carrier Screening and Non-Invasive Prenatal Screening?
Faculty Mentor
Rachel Rabin and Monika Zak
Area of Research
Genetics
Major
Genetic Counseling
Description
There are many populations that have a large need for the services of genetic counselling but due to factors such as ratio of genetic counselors to patients or lack of resources, the services are not widely available. In place of one-on-one genetic counseling visits, group genetic counselling sessions are an option in support of or in-place of these individual appointments. In this study we look at effectiveness of group prenatal genetic counselling sessions at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego and compare the implications of effectiveness of these group sessions from primigravida versus multigravida women who attend these sessions. At the conclusion of each genetic counseling group session the mothers took a survey to guide in their understanding about the content that was provided during the group session. In addition, women indicated whether they were primigravida or multigravida as well as provided insight into their feelings on the effectiveness and opinions on the group genetic counseling sessions. The results from this survey were used to make conclusions about group counseling as a method of healthcare by evaluating the data using a chi-squared test. The data from the survey was not able to find significance between primigravida and multigravida women who attended the group genetic counseling sessions. The lack of significant data may be due largely in part to the low number of respondents. The lack of significance of the data was able to provide insight into the effectiveness of the method group genetic counseling for pretest prenatal counseling.
How Will Primigravida Parents and Multigravida Parents Differ in Their Feelings About Pre-Test Group Genetic Counseling Sessions for Carrier Screening and Non-Invasive Prenatal Screening?
There are many populations that have a large need for the services of genetic counselling but due to factors such as ratio of genetic counselors to patients or lack of resources, the services are not widely available. In place of one-on-one genetic counseling visits, group genetic counselling sessions are an option in support of or in-place of these individual appointments. In this study we look at effectiveness of group prenatal genetic counselling sessions at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego and compare the implications of effectiveness of these group sessions from primigravida versus multigravida women who attend these sessions. At the conclusion of each genetic counseling group session the mothers took a survey to guide in their understanding about the content that was provided during the group session. In addition, women indicated whether they were primigravida or multigravida as well as provided insight into their feelings on the effectiveness and opinions on the group genetic counseling sessions. The results from this survey were used to make conclusions about group counseling as a method of healthcare by evaluating the data using a chi-squared test. The data from the survey was not able to find significance between primigravida and multigravida women who attended the group genetic counseling sessions. The lack of significant data may be due largely in part to the low number of respondents. The lack of significance of the data was able to provide insight into the effectiveness of the method group genetic counseling for pretest prenatal counseling.