| Abstract: | Mothers of 62 infants on apnea monitors (M) and 72 nonmonitored (NM) infants completed questionnaires describing their anxiety upon leaving the hospital, at 1 to 3 month follow-up, and at postmonitoring (or 3 to 6 month followup) A modified version of the Start-Trait Anxlety lnterval (STAI) assessed general (trait) anxlety as well as anxiety in two situations infant sleepmg with parents and infant sleeping alone Both NM and M mothers reported high anxiety about infant sleeping alone, while M mothers reported higher anxiety than NM mothers about the infant sleeping alone No differences in trait anxiety were observed lnterpretation was qualified due to initial group differences in demographics. |
