PEDIATRICS Vol. 50 No. 6 December 1972, pp. 931-934
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Concerns of Mothers in a Pediatric Clinic

David A. Waller M.D., MC1 and Eugene E. Levitt Ph.D.2

1 Department of Pediatrics, U.S. Army Hospital Fort Benjamin Harrison
2 Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University Medical Center, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana 46216

Five hundred and fourteen mothers who brought their children to a pediatric clinic for either well baby or nonroutine visits were given a questionnaire asking "Reason for visit" and "What concerns you most about your child?" Questionnaires with both questions answered were submitted to independent raters for categorization of concerns. The majority of mothers in the nonroutine group expressed a concern that was not a repetition of the reason for visit. Usually the concern was specific and related to the reason for visit, but one of ten children was brought by a parent whose major concern about her child was specific and unrelated to her "chief complaint." A large proportion of mothers bringing their children for well baby visits expressed a specific concern about their babies.