Abstract

This award extends Black?s currently funded ?Perinatal Care Options Study? (PCOS) to include six Latina participants. PCOS is an ethnographic study of pregnant women?s experience when they have a positive diagnosis of lethal fetal anomalies. Black recruits PCOS participants through the UNC Health Care Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine?s Center for Maternal-Infant Health (CMIH). Over a quarter of the women receiving care through the CMIH are Latinas whose first language is Spanish. This award will provide funding to include six Spanish-speaking participants in the study and to hire a professional interpreter to provide consecutive interpretation of interviews.