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Table 2 List of Topics

From: Reproductive choices: a qualitative study of Dutch Moroccan and Turkish consanguineously married women’s perspectives on preconception carrier screening

Personal information

Age, educational background, migrant status, age of migration, children.

Consanguinity

Relationship to partner prior to marriage, marriage history, perspectives on consanguinity (disadvantages, advantages), consanguineous marriages in family and social environment, differences in perspectives among generations.

Genetic risk

Knowledge, perspectives on genetic risk.

Children’s health

Disease, diagnostic history, genetic background, living with a child with a disability/disease, mother’s and father’s ways of coping, experiences in health care.

Genetic testing

Perspectives on testing.

Reproductive options

The possibilities of PCS in the future: (1) not having children; (2) termination of pregnancy (TOP) after prenatal genetic diagnosis (PND); (3) in vitro fertilization (IVF) combined with Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD); (4) in vitro fertilization with a donor egg cell; (5) artificial insemination with donor sperm (AID); (6) adoption, or; (7) not taking any special measures or preparing for possibly of having a disabled child.