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Educational priorities and current involvement in genetic practice: a survey of midwives in the Netherlands, UK and Sweden

Författare

  • Caroline M. Benjamin
  • Elizabeth N. Anionwu
  • Ulf Kristoffersson
  • Leo P. ten Kate
  • Anne Marie C. Plass
  • Irmgard Nippert
  • Claire Julian-Reynier
  • Hilary J. Harris
  • Joerg Schmidtke
  • Kirsty Challen
  • Jean Marc Calefato
  • Christine Waterman
  • Eileen Powell
  • Rodney Harris

Summary, in English

Objective: to investigate whether practising midwives are adequately prepared to integrate genetic information into their practice. Design: a cross-sectional, postal, structured questionnaire survey was sent to practising midwives. Setting: practising midwives from the Netherlands (NL), Sweden (SE) and the United Kingdom (UK). Participants: 1021 replies were received, achieving a response rate of 62%. Findings: 79% (799/1015) of midwives reported attending courses with some 'genetic content' during their initial training. Sixty-eight per cent (533/784) judged this to have been useful for clinical practice. Variation was seen between countries in the amount of genetic content in post-registration training (SE 87%, NL 44%, UK 17%) and underpinned by genetic knowledge. For eight of the 12 procedures, fewer than 20% of midwives considered themselves to be confident. Differences were apparent between countries. Midwives identified psychosocial, screening and risk assessment aspects of genetic education as being important to them, rather than technical aspects or genetic science. Conclusions: given the low reported confidence with genetic issues in clinical practice, it is essential that this is addressed in terms of the amount, content and targeting of genetic education. This is especially important to ensure the success of national antenatal and baby screening programmes. The results of this study suggest that midwives would welcome further training in genetics, addressing genetic topics most relevant to their clinical practice. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

483-499

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Midwifery

Volym

25

Issue

5

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Nursing

Nyckelord

  • research
  • European
  • Postal survey
  • Education
  • Genetics
  • Midwifery
  • Nursing

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1532-3099