LQTS Parents’ Reflections About Genetic Risk Knowledge and their Need to Know or Not to Know their Children’s Carrier Status

Journal of Genetic Counseling

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1022-1033

  Mangset, Margrete ^a   Hofmann, Bjørn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Child; DNA test; Genetic knowledge; Long QT syndrome; Parents; Responsibility; Rights; Risk information

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; EDUCATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; PARENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; DISCLOSURE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; PARENTS; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84909968163     PISSN: 10597700     EISSN: 15733599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10897-014-9727-2     Document Type: Article

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