Maternity care professionals’ views on good counselling for prenatal anomaly screening: a qualitative inquiry

Most participants consider that in good counselling, important themes are providing information as a mechanism, and parents making their own free choices as an outcome. The results and discourse reflect a more non-directive attitude before and during the decision-making process. Since a non-directive attitude can complicate parents' more autonomous decision-making, we suggest paying attention to more directive guidance by providing structure to facilitate parents' more autonomous decision-making.