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Measuring Awareness and Identifying Misconceptions About Genetic Counseling Services and Utilizing Television to Educate.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Measuring Awareness and Identifying Misconceptions About Genetic Counseling Services and Utilizing Television to Educate./
Author:	Goldberg, Dena.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	176 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-01.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International55-01(E).
Subject:	Genetics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1596229
ISBN:	9781321964271

Measuring Awareness and Identifying Misconceptions About Genetic Counseling Services and Utilizing Television to Educate.
Goldberg, Dena.

Measuring Awareness and Identifying Misconceptions About Genetic Counseling Services and Utilizing Television to Educate. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 176 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-01.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of California, Irvine, 2015.

Understanding awareness and perceptions of genetic counseling (GC) is important in identifying and overcoming potential barriers to GC services. However, there are relatively few empirical data regarding these factors among US-based populations. To address this, we attended various community events for the general public, disability community, and new parents and recruited participants for a survey-based study comprising demographic questions, closed-ended knowledge-based and awareness questions, and open text sections. We applied descriptive statistics to responses about demographics, awareness of GC, purposes of GC, and perceptions of GC practice. In total, 320 individuals participated, including 69 from the general public, 209 from the disability community, and 42 from the new parent community. Slightly more than half of respondents (n =173, 54%) had heard of GC. Risk assessment and counseling were among the most frequently cited activities attributed to genetic counselors; a few felt that GC was related to eugenics. Respondents thought that GC aims to prevent genetic disorders (n=82, 74%), helps people find their ethnic origins and understand their ancestry (n=176, 55%), advises people whether to have children (n=140, 44%), and helps couples have children with desirable characteristics (n=126, 39%). Our data showed the majority of participants preferred to watch a medical thriller involving genetic counseling, followed by documentary series; comedy was rated the lowest. These data revealed gaps in awareness of GC and misperceptions about its purpose and can be useful in devising targeted interventions by developing entertainment-based education to improve public knowledge of genetic health and the roles of GCs.

ISBN: 9781321964271Subjects--Topical Terms:

530508
Genetics.

Measuring Awareness and Identifying Misconceptions About Genetic Counseling Services and Utilizing Television to Educate.
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