Background There is a widely held expectation that screening for disease has adverse
emotional impacts. The aim of the current review is to estimate the short (< 4 weeks) and …

Clinical genetic testing is now available for many cardio-vascular diseases, including
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), familial dilated cardiomyopathy, and arrhythmogenic …

Objective of this paper is to study how DNA-test result information was communicated and
perceived within families. A retrospective descriptive study in 13 probands with a BRCA1/2 …

This paper will consider the right not to know in the context of psychiatric disorders. It will
outline the arguments for and against acquiring knowledge about the results of genetic …

Vos J, Oosterwijk JC, Gómez‐García E, Menko FH, Jansen AM, Stoel RD, van Asperen CJ,
Tibben A, Stiggelbout AM. Perceiving cancer‐risks and heredity‐likelihood in genetic …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate outcomes of breast cancer genetic counseling in women with and
without breast cancer. METHODS: Seventy-seven first-time attendees (n= 44 affected) …

Few studies examine the use of family history to influence risk perceptions in the African
American population. This study examined the influence of a family health history (FHH) …

Purpose Genetic counseling may help counselees understand their genetic risk of
developing breast/ovarian cancer. However, many studies have shown that their perception …

OBJECTIVE: This paper explores factors that influence the formulation of risk perception
among men with a family history of prostate cancer who are currently attending a prostate …

This study assessed the impact of the results of genetic testing for hereditary cancer from a
multifactorial health psychology perspective, considering that emotional expression plays a …