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The Acceptability of Prenatal Diagnosis in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Hirokatsu Kitai ,
Hisako Watanabe ,
Mitsuko Sayama ,
Miyuki Kanemune ,
Mayumi Nishiyama ,
Ruriko Nishino  and
Kimihiko Itoh
Hirokatsu Kitai
Affiliation:
Social Insurance Saitama Chuoh Hospital
Hisako Watanabe
Affiliation:
Saitama College of Health
Mitsuko Sayama
Affiliation:
Saitama College of Health
Miyuki Kanemune
Affiliation:
Saitama College of Health
Mayumi Nishiyama
Affiliation:
Saitama College of Health
Ruriko Nishino
Affiliation:
Social Insurance Saitama Chuoh Hospital
Kimihiko Itoh
Affiliation:
Social Insurance Saitama Chuoh Hospital
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Abstract

Prenatal diagnosis has been performed more frequently in Japan recently, but is still less popular than in the United States or Europe. Legal arrangements, insufficient economic support, and insufficient medical information provided to future parents may explain this difference. The acceptability of prenatal diagnosis, based on the concept of the cost of side effects and elective abortion, was found to be similar when examined through decision analysis and direct survey. Amniocentesis was considered useful for more than half of couples in Japan when the incidence of chromosomal abnormality is more than 0.5% and proper information about the decision to undergo this examination is provided to the pregnant woman and her family.

Type
Special Section: Assessing Nursing and Technology
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , Summer 1994 , pp. 436 - 446
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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