Do Social Factors Play a Role in the Rate of Developmental Follow-up Visits Among Patients with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome?

Purpose: Newborns exposed to opioids prenatally are at risk of developing Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). Developmental follow-up is crucial and enables assessment of gross-motor, fine-motor, social development, language, and learning ability at specific life stages to determine if all the milestones are being achieved. Social factors may play a role in the rate compliance with developmental follow-up visits among infants with NAS. We hypothesized that neonates with NAS, who have multiple social confounders, are …