Evaluating Decisional Regret Among Mothers

Christiana Care Health Services

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pregnancy Preterm; Birth, Preterm; Extreme Prematurity

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04074525

DDD604440

Details and patient eligibility

About

The anticipated birth of an extremely low gestational age infant presents many complex and ethically challenging questions, including whether to initiate resuscitation or comfort care after delivery. Failure to identify and align decision-making to parents' values during periviabilty counseling may result in greater opportunity for decisional regret. The goal of the proposed research is to assess decisional regret in mothers of extremely premature births and to compare decisional regret in mothers who chose resuscitation at time of delivery to those who chose comfort care. Approximately 1000 mothers of infants born extremely premature at 2 perinatal centers in the US will be surveyed.

Enrollment: 211 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Mothers of infants born between 22 and 25 completed weeks gestation during the study timeframe.
• Mothers who had a documented perinatal consult
• Greater than 18 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Potential life limiting fetal diagnoses aside from prematurity and non-English primary language