Trial reportThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2010
Offering antenatal sickle cell and thalassaemia screening to pregnant women in primary care: a qualitative study of GPs' experiences.
Trial report in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- General practitioners' (GPs) experience, attitudes and needs on clinical genetic services: a systematic review.Family medicine and community health · 2022Pooled it
- Health practitioners' perceptions of the barriers and enablers to the implementation of reproductive genetic carrier screening: A systematic review.Prenatal diagnosis · 2021Pooled it
- EHA Recommendations for preconceptual and antenatal screening and prenatal diagnosis for hemoglobinopathies.HemaSphere · 2026Article
- Sickle cell disease and maternity care: A qualitative synthesis of women's and health providers experiences.PloS one · 2026Article
- The more you do it, the easier it gets: using behaviour change theory to support health care professionals offering reproductive genetic carrier screening.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2023Article
- Experiences of a High-Risk Population with Prenatal Hemoglobinopathy Carrier Screening in a Primary Care Setting: a Qualitative Study.Journal of genetic counseling · 2018Article
- Preferences for prenatal diagnosis of sickle-cell disorder: A discrete choice experiment comparing potential service users and health-care providers.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2017Article
- Non-invasive prenatal testing for single gene disorders: exploring the ethics.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2013Article
- Attitudes of general practitioners and midwives towards ethnicity-based haemoglobinopathy-carrier screening.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2012Article
- Offering antenatal sickle cell and thalassaemia screening to pregnant women in primary care: a qualitative study of women's experiences and expectations of participation.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2012Article
- Jumping (or being pushed) from maternity care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2010Article
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Abstract
backgroundTimely antenatal sickle cell and thalassaemia (SC&T) screening for all women in primary care facilitates informed decision making, but little is known about its implementation.
aimTo assess the feasibility of offering antenatal SC&T screening in primary care at the time of pregnancy confirmation. DESIGN OF STUDY: Cross-sectional investigation of GPs' beliefs and perceived practices.
methodInformal face-to-face interviews with 34 GPs.
settingSeventeen inner-city general practices that offered antenatal SC&T screening as part of a trial.
resultsGPs identified both barriers and facilitators. Organisational barriers included inflexible appointment systems and lack of interpreters for women whose first language was not English. Professional barriers included concerns about raising possible adverse outcomes in the first antenatal visit. Perceived patient barriers included women's lack of awareness of SC&T. Hence, GPs presented the test to women as routine, rather than as a choice. Organisational facilitators included simple and flexible systems for offering screening in primary care, practice cohesion, and training. Professional facilitators included positive attitudes to screening for SC&T. Perceived patient facilitators included women's desire for healthy children.
conclusionGPs reported barriers, as well as facilitators, to successful implementation but the extent to which screening could be regarded as offering 'informed choice' remained fundamental when making sense of these barriers and facilitators.
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