Options counseling: techniques for caring for women with unintended pregnancies

Singer, J

doi:10.1016/s1526-9523(04)00003-0

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“…29 There have been other studies showing that breast-feeding was discontinued earlier in babies born to women with unplanned pregnancy. 16,30 Consistent with the literature, 12,31,32 this study revealed that mother-infant interactions were significantly poorer in the unplanned pregnancy group. Health professionals should help women with unplanned pregnancy to improve mother-infant interaction in the prenatal and early postpartum period.…”

Section: Effects Of Unplanned Pregnancy On Babiessupporting

confidence: 81%

Effects of unplanned pregnancy on neonatal health in Turkey: A case–control study

Karaçam

Şen

Amanak

2010

Int J of Nursing Practice

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The aim of this study was to investigate effects of unplanned pregnancy on neonatal health. This is a retrospective case-control study and included 314 babies selected with a non-probability method. Data were collected with a questionnaire of descriptive characteristics and neonatal health and Parent Infant Interaction Assessment Scale. A significantly higher rate of the babies born to the women with unplanned pregnancy had meconium in their amniotic fluid (14.6% vs. 7.0%; P = 0.029), needed special care (20.4% vs. 11.5%; P = 0.031) and were kept in the incubators (12.7% vs. 4.5%; P = 0.009). Both the babies born to the women with unplanned pregnancy and the babies born to the women with planned pregnancy were first fed with breast milk (96.8% of the unplanned group; 98.1% of the planned group), but a higher rate of the babies born to the women with unplanned pregnancy had problems with breast-feeding. (19.1% vs. 5.1%; P = 0.000). The babies born to the women with unplanned pregnancy got significantly lower scores on Parent Infant Interaction Assessment Scale (4.86 ± 1.98 in the unplanned group; 8.52 ± 1.43 in the planned group; P = 0.000). We found that a higher rate of the babies born to the women with unplanned pregnancy needed special care, had problems with breast-feeding and negative parent-infant interaction. We recommend that women with unplanned pregnancy should be given priority on prenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care and that measures which protect and promote neonatal health should be taken.

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Section: Effects Of Unplanned Pregnancy On Babiessupporting

confidence: 81%

Effects of unplanned pregnancy on neonatal health in Turkey: A case–control study

Karaçam

Şen

Amanak

2010

Int J of Nursing Practice

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“…Options counseling: Techniques for caring for women with unintended pregnancies (Singer, 2004) "Options Counseling: Starting points for discussion" (samples)…”

Section: Adoption and Abortion Counseling Specificsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Caring for Women with Unintended Pregnancies

Simmonds¹,

Likis²

2011

Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing

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“…The perceived adequacy of preabortion counseling may also play an important role in mitigating or increasing the amount of stress women feel following abortion. Preabortion counseling has been criticized as being too time limited, inadequate to address the ambivalence and the complexity inherent in the abortion decision, lacking in discussion of alternatives to abortion, deficient in assessing coercion or pressure to abort, provided by nonprofessionals who are biased, and not tailored to the needs of the individual patient (Singer, 2004;Steinberg, 1989;Stites, 1982). The National Abortion Federation (2007) advises that "there should be an opportunity for discussion of the patient's feelings about the abortion decision" (p. 3).…”

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Inadequate preabortion counseling and decision conflict as predictors of subsequent relationship difficulties and psychological stress in men and women.

Coyle¹,

Coleman

Rue³

2010

Traumatology

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The purpose of this study was to examine associations between perceptions of preabortion counseling adequacy and partner congruence in abortion decisions and two sets of outcome variables involving relationship problems and individual psychological stress. Data were collected through online surveys from 374 women who had a prior abortion and 198 men whose partners had experienced elective abortion. For women, perceptions of preabortion counseling inadequacy predicted relationship problems, symptoms of intrusion, avoidance, and hyperarousal, and meeting full diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with controls for demographic and personal/situational variables used. For men, perceptions of inadequate counseling predicted relationship problems and symptoms of intrusion and avoidance with the same controls used. Incongruence in the decision to abort predicted intrusion and meeting diagnostic criteria for PTSD among women with controls used, whereas for men, decision incongruence predicted intrusion, hyperarousal, meeting diagnostic criteria for PTSD, and relationship problems. Findings suggest that both perceptions of inadequate preabortion counseling and incongruence in the abortion decision with one's partner are related to adverse personal and interpersonal outcomes.

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Options counseling: techniques for caring for women with unintended pregnancies

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

Effects of unplanned pregnancy on neonatal health in Turkey: A case–control study

Effects of unplanned pregnancy on neonatal health in Turkey: A case–control study

Caring for Women with Unintended Pregnancies

Inadequate preabortion counseling and decision conflict as predictors of subsequent relationship difficulties and psychological stress in men and women.

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