ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Pediatr.
Sec. Neonatology
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1552911
This article is part of the Research TopicCare of the extremely preterm infantView all 15 articles
Parent and Perinatal Professional Priorities and Perspectives for the Pre-Birth Periviable Conversation: a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews
Provisionally accepted
- 1Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- 2Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), Manchester, United Kingdom
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Author Contributions: JP and DMS devised the article. JP conducted the interviews. JP and DMS performed the thematic analysis. JP wrote the initial manuscript. DMS, EJ and AM reviewed and revised the manuscript. All authors reviewed the manuscript prior to submission.The authors would like to thank the parents who participated in these interviews for their generosity through sharing of their time and their deeply moving accounts of their and their child's experiences. The authors would also like to thank the perinatal professionals for their honest and open engagement with this topic.
Keywords: neonates, Extreme preterm, Periviable, decision-making, trauma & maternity care
Received: 29 Dec 2024; Accepted: 02 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Peterson, Johnstone, Mahaveer and Smith. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Jennifer Peterson, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, England, United Kingdom
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