Testarea prenatală – studiu despre cunoaşterea şi atitudinea pacientelor

Introduction. In an era of technology in full development, information has become very easily accessible. However, pregnant patients have important gaps in knowing the main methods of screening and antenatal diagnosis of fetal malformations. This study aims to achieve the “in­formed” and “uninformed” patients profile, and to present a fast score for the patient level of knowledge, in ordet to have a better physician – patient relationship. Materials and method. The study method was represented by a sur­vey based on a structured interview, applied to 364 preg­nant or postpartum patients of maximum 7 days, hos­pi­talized between October 2016 and June 2017 at the “Prof. Dr. Panait Sirbu” Clinical Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology, from Bucharest. Results and conclusions. The level of knowledge has been influenced directly pro­por­tional in the most obvious and constant way by social-symbolic variables (level of education, degree of oc­cupational resources, and origin environment). The higher the social-symbolic level, the higher the level of patient's demand, the interest in the precision of the re­quired diagnostic method in case of increased risk of mal­for­ma­tion and additional information until the decision to interrupt the pregnancy in front of a positive diagnosis.