Degree Name

MA (Master of Arts)

Program

Psychology

Date of Award

5-2020

Committee Chair or Co-Chairs

Alyson Jo Chroust

Committee Members

Andrea Clements, Meredith Ginley

Abstract

The incidences of maternal opioid use and neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) have increased by nearly 400% over the past decade. Isemann and colleagues (2017) developed prediction tools (TiTE/TiTE2) to differentiate, within the first two days of life, between infants who will require pharmacotherapy for NOWS from those infants who will not require pharmacotherapy for NOWS. The goal of the current experiment was to replicate and extend their prediction model. The present experiments successfully replicated Isemann et al., (2017) results and also established alternative cutoff values for requiring treatment that provide better balance between all four metrics. Moreover, new prediction models (TEN/TEN2) were proposed based on a factor analysis of modified Finnegan scores across the first 48 hours of life. Area Under the Curve-Receiver Operating Characteristic curve analyses indicated that the TEN2 was the best prediction model compared to the TiTE2 and the TEN.

Document Type

Thesis - unrestricted

Copyright

Copyright by the authors.

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