Women's expectations and intention to terminate pregnancy in case of abnormal findings at the second trimester level II ultrasound scan: A prospective, questionnaire-based, cross-sectional survey

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 255-263

  Athanasiadis, Apostolos P ^a,b   Polychronou, Paris ^a   Mikos, Themistoklis ^a   Pantazis, Konstantinos ^a   Assimakopoulos, Efstratios ^a   Tzevelekis, Filippos ^a   Bontis, John N ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Centre of Prenatal Diagnosis   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Level 2 ultrasound; Prenatal diagnosis; Women's expectations; Women's intention to terminate pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INTENTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; WOMEN;

EID: 66749176118     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000223682     Document Type: Article

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