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. 1984;28(2):163-9.
doi: 10.1016/0022-3999(84)90010-2.

Anxiety during a crisis: emotional effects of screening for neural tube defects

J O Robinson, B M Hibbard, K M Laurence

Anxiety during a crisis: emotional effects of screening for neural tube defects

J O Robinson et al. J Psychosom Res. 1984.

Abstract

Anxiety was assessed in prospective mothers undergoing screening for foetal neural tube defects. Anxiety was found to be extreme and only returned to normal levels when a definitely negative amniocentesis result was communicated to the woman. Anxiety was mitigated by social and family support but other life events had little effect on it.

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