title: Anxiety during a crisis: emotional effects of screening for neural tube defects.
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.
mesh_terms: D000649:Amniocentesis / Q000523:psychology; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D009436:Neural Tube Defects / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D012944:Social Support; D014463:Ultrasonography; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins