| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北護理健康大學 === 語言治療與聽力研究所 === 105 === A genetic test associated with hearing loss can compensate for some limitations of
newborn hearing screening and offer more pluralistic information clinically.
Nevertheless, the hearing-loss-associated genetic test may be mentally stressful for
parents and may relate to parenting dysfunction. The present study examined two
effects of a hearing-loss-associated genetic test on mothers of newborns who failed
hearing rescreening; specifically, the effects of the test on anxiety level and risk of
parenting dysfunction were examined.
The research subjects were 30 mothers (20 to 50 years old) with newborns who
had failed the newborn hearing rescreening; at their own expense, these mothers
received a hearing-loss-associated genetic test at Cheng Hsin General Hospital. Among
the 30 newborns, 15 of them failed the newborn hearing rescreening, and the genetic
test result was no finding, whereas the other 15 newborns not only failed the newborn
hearing rescreening but also were found to carry the hearing loss gene. The assessment
instruments were Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the Parenting
IV
Stress Index (PSI).
Regarding mothers of newborns carrying no hearing loss gene (Group A), the
result showed a statistically significant difference in the state anxiety score (p = .00) as
well as in the trait anxiety score (p = .01). In the case of mothers of newborns carrying
the target hearing loss gene (Group B) , a statistically significant difference was found
in the state anxiety score (p =.01) but not in the trait anxiety score (p = .08). Compared
the trait anxiety scores between the two groups both before and after the
hearing-loss-associated genetic test, and the result revealed no statistically significant
difference either before (p = .25 > .05) or after (p = .24 > .05) the
hearing-loss-associated genetic test. The study then compared the posttest trait anxiety
score between the experimental group (Group B) and the control group (Group A), and
the result (F = .18, p = .67 > .05) was not statistically significant. In other words,
different hearing-loss-associated genetic test results incorrelate to the trait anxiety level
between the experimental group and the control group. When comparing the posttest
state anxiety scores of the experimental group (Group B) and that of the control group
(Group A), the result was not statistically significant (F = .48 , p = .50 > .05). In
V
conclusion, the different hearing-loss-associated genetic test results incorrelate to the
state anxiety level between the experimental group and the control group. As for PSI,
the between-group difference was tested by an independent t test, and the difference
was not statistically significant (p = .07 > .05).
|
|---|
