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August 16-17, 2018 | Paris, France
Primary Healthcare
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Pediatrics Health Care
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Journal of Current Pediatric Research | Volume: 22
A preliminary analysis of factors affecting the knowledge of parents on Neonatal Mass Screening
programs
Renata Bakalarz
A. Frycz Modrzewski Krakow Academy, Poland
The neonatal mass screening programs save thousands of
children from early death and severe damage to the central
nervous system. Thus, of significance is the knowledge of the
importance of screening and information for parents.
The objective of the paper is the evaluation of factors affecting
parental knowledge of the goal and character of neonatal mass
screening programs.
The studywas basedon themethodof adiagnostic surveywhich
included mothers staying at the Neonatology Wards in the first
days after delivery. The analysis included 209 questionnaires
completed in the period between January and May 2017.
Almost 80% of the subjects heard about performing neonatal
mass screening tests and they acquired the knowledge from
their physician (28.7%),midwife (34.9%) or the Internet (27.8%).
For almost 50% of them, the knowledge was insufficient. 70%
emphasized the necessity of conveying information on normal
results. 80%signed the consent formfor the test, but only 40.7%
had received extensive information prior to signing. 49.8%
of the subjects expressed their opinion that mass screening
tests should be also performed in case of diseases for which
no therapies were available. A statistical correlation was also
demonstrated between the above opinion and the education
level of the subjects (p<0.05).
Conclusions:
1. Parents of newborn children are entitled to receiving honest
and solid information from health care professionals.
2. The web pages on the Internet that discuss various medical
problems should be verifiedwith respect to the substantive and
factual level of information they provide.
Speaker Biography
RenataBakalarzisaspecialistinneonatalnursing.SheiscurrentlyonthethirdyearofPhD
studiesattheJagiellonianUniversityCollegiumModicumFacultyofHealthSciences.She
works at the neonatal pathology department in the Stefan Żeromski Specialist Hospital
in Krakow. Additionally, she is an academic teacher at the Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski
Krakow University, a contestant of the national and international conferences.
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Renata Bakalarz, Pediatrics & Primary HealthCare 2018, Volume 22
DOI: 10.4066/0971-9032-C1-003