Variables influencing parental perception of inherited metabolic diseases before and after genetic counselling

Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 769-780

  Saleem, R ^a   Gofin, R ^a   Ben Neriah, Z ^a   Boneh, A ^a,b  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOSLEM; PARENT; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTS; PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCTION; RISK;

EID: 0031752645     PISSN: 01418955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005453301377     Document Type: Article

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