The Wallace Center’s Dr. Cassondra Marshall and Dr. Lindsay Parham Publish New Study on Experiences of Preconception Counseling Among Pregnant Women with Preexisting Diabetes

Available research suggests that patients with diabetes do not regularly receive preconception counseling, but information on patients’ experiences of counseling is scant. Dr. Cassondra Marshall and Dr. Lindsay Parham, alongside partners at UCSF, conducted a qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with 22 patients between October 2020 and February 2021. Pregnant patients with preexisting diabetes were recruited from a specialty diabetes and pregnancy clinic at a large academic medical center in Northern California. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed using an inductive and deductive content analysis approach. 

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