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Maternal Anxiety Associated With Newborn Hearing Screening, Stephen J. Tueller, Karl R. White
Maternal Anxiety Associated With Newborn Hearing Screening, Stephen J. Tueller, Karl R. White
Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention
The purpose of this study was to determine if newborn hearing screening increases maternal anxiety. Mothers whose infants were screened for hearing were asked how worried they were prior to hospital discharge and again six weeks later. They were also asked if they were more concerned about their baby’s hearing than they were about other aspects of the infant’s health and behavior.
Results showed that mothers worried as much or more about many other aspects of their infants’ health and behavior as about hearing. Mothers whose infants had a false positive screening result were initially more worried about hearing than …