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The impact of non‐invasive prenatal testing on anxiety in women considered at high or low risk for aneuploidy after combined first trimester screening
Author(s) -
Richmond Zara,
Fleischer Ron,
Chopra Maya,
Pinner Jason,
D'Souza Mario,
Fridgant Yelena,
Hyett Jonathan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
prenatal diagnosis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.956
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1097-0223
pISSN - 0197-3851
DOI - 10.1002/pd.5110
Subject(s) - anxiety , obstetrics , medicine , pregnancy , risk assessment , at risk mental state , trait anxiety , clinical psychology , aneuploidy , psychology , gynecology , psychiatry , biology , mental state , genetics , computer security , computer science , gene , chromosome
What's already known about this topic? High‐risk combined first trimester screening results may create high levels of state anxiety. This anxiety usually resolves upon receipt of a normal karyotype result through invasive testing. However, invasive testing itself provokes anxiety. What does this study add? Both high‐risk and low‐risk combined first trimester screening populations demonstrated similar trait anxiety levels and experienced a statistically significant reduction in state anxiety to similar final levels after they received a low‐risk non‐invasive prenatal testing result.