Roles of attitudes and injunctive norms in decisional conflict and disclosure following receipt of genome sequencing results.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Individuals who choose to obtain genetic information may learn that their genetic profile confers health risks to themselves or offspring. Individuals may react more negatively to this information when personal attitudes, perceived norms, and/or the decision to receive results conflict with one another.

Objective

We predicted that holding more negative attitudes (personal evaluations) or injunctive norms (perceptions of others' approval) toward obtaining genetic test results would prospectively predict greater conflict about the decision to undergo sequencing and less disclosure of sequencing results to family members. We also expected attitudes and norms to interact, such that attitudes would be negatively associated with decisional conflict and positively associa

SUBMITTER: Reid AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7492472 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature