PURPOSE: investigate the level of conscience of the parents in relation to the importance of the neonatal auditory selection, as well as verifying the reasons of not the attendance to the return set appointments after the first evaluation. METHOD: the casuistry was constituted by 31 responsible mothers in the neonatal unit of the University Hospital of Maringá, which had not appeared to the high return set appointments after the hospital one. RESULTS: the reasons presented for the responsible mothers and/or for the attendance to the set appointments return had not involved attitudes that had been able to signal little importance attributed to the questions related to the hearing and the Newborn Hearing Screening, therefore suggest reasons irrelevant as the forgetfulness of the return, mother thought that the baby would not leave to be submitted to the examination and the loss of schedule for new evaluation. Such fact probably reflects the lack of awareness on the part of the mothers of the newborns how much to the importance of the Newborn Hearing Screening. CONCLUSION: exists to increase the general awareness in relation to the Newborn hearing screening, on the part of the familiar ones and the professionals who act directly with the newborns, which will contribute for the agility of the diagnostics process, guaranteeing better perspective to the future of carrying children of auditory deficiency.
Neonatal Screening; Hearing Loss; Infant, Newborn; Hearing Tests
