Trial reportJournal of behavioral medicine1982
The effects of ultrasound examination on maternal anxiety levels.
Trial report in Journal of behavioral medicine, 1982. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Psychosocial interventions for supporting women to stop smoking in pregnancy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- High feedback versus low feedback of prenatal ultrasound for reducing maternal anxiety and improving maternal health behaviour in pregnancy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Psychosocial interventions for supporting women to stop smoking in pregnancy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- An Opportunity During Antenatal Services to Strengthen Nurturing Care: Global and National Recommendations for Routine Ultrasound Before 24 Weeks Gestation.Frontiers in public health · 2020Trial
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- Seeing the baby: The impact of ultrasound technology.Journal of genetic counseling · 1992Article
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Abstract
A study has been conducted to assess the psychological effects of real-time ultrasound on the pregnant woman's attitudes and anxiety levels. A consecutive series of primiparae, fulfilling the selection criteria of obstetrically "low risk," was assigned at random to two conditions of ultrasound, namely, (a) high feedback (N = 67), where the woman saw the moving fetus in utero; and (b) low feedback (N = 62), where the monitor screen was not visible and no specific feedback was provided. A third group of women was assessed following a wait period in order to compare state anxiety levels among the three groups. Attitude assessments showed consistent preultrasound-post-ultrasound change, with more uniformly positive attitudes displayed by the high-feedback group. No between-group differences in state anxiety emerged as a result of ultrasound compared with a wait control period. No differences emerged with respect to anticipatory anxiety measures. The results are considered in the context of evidence on the importance of psychological state on the course and outcome of pregnancy. It is suggested that the low-risk characteristics of this sample may have precluded effects on anxiety and it is concluded that the therapeutic potential of ultrasound warrants further study.
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