title: Professionals' placement recommendations to parents of a newborn with Down's syndrome.
abstract: The placement recommendations of 98 professionals to parents, relating to their newborn with Down's syndrome, were studied in respect to social variables relating to their decisions. Using a projective questionnaire with case vignettes it was found that social variables played a significant role in professionals' hypothetical placement recommendations to parents of a newborn with Down's syndrome. Furthermore, these placement recommendations varied according to professional categories (nurses differed from physicians and social workers) and personal attributes (age and professional experience).
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan Israel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rimmerman
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hofer
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007557:Israel; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011247:Pregnancy; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires