Non-participation in predictive testing for Huntington's disease: Individual decision-making, personality and avoidant behaviour in the family

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 351-363

  Decruyenaere, Marleen ^a   Evers Kiebooms, Gerry ^a,b   Boogaerts, Andrea ^a   Cloostermans, Trees ^a   Cassiman, Jean Jacques ^a   Demyttenaere, Koen ^a   Dom, René ^a   Fryns, Jean Pierre ^a   Van Den Berghe, Herman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Avoidant attitude; Decision making; Huntington's disease; Non participants; Personality; Predictive testing; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0031467561     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000484792     Document Type: Article

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