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South Dakota Parents’ Knowledge Of Congenital Cytomegalovirus, Its Long-Term Health Effects, And Methods For Minimizing Exposure, Felicia Reimann, Jessica Messersmith, Hannah Williams, Emily Riley
South Dakota Parents’ Knowledge Of Congenital Cytomegalovirus, Its Long-Term Health Effects, And Methods For Minimizing Exposure, Felicia Reimann, Jessica Messersmith, Hannah Williams, Emily Riley
Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention
Congenital CMV (cCMV) is acknowledged as one of the most common causes of nonhereditary sensorineural hearing loss and an important cause of neurodevelopmental delay in children. Despite the danger cCMV poses, many parents are unaware of the virus, its sequelae, mode of transmission, and preventative behaviors. The purpose of the study was to determine South Dakota parents’ knowledge of cCMV, its sequelae, and ways to minimize exposure.
An electronic survey was utilized for data collection. Parents of children born in South Dakota from 2011 to 2018 were asked about their knowledge of CMV and cCMV, including common sequelae and ways …