Talking about Risk, UncertaintieS of Testing IN Genetics (TRUSTING): development and evaluation of an educational programme for healthcare professionals about BRCA1 & BRCA2 testing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mainstreaming of germline testing demands that all healthcare professionals have good communication skills, but few have genetic testing and counselling experience. We developed and evaluated educational workshops-Talking about Risk & UncertaintieS of Testing IN Genetics (TRUSTING). Contents included: presentations and exercises, an interview with a geneticist about BRCA testing, screening and prevention implications, filmed interactions between surgeons, a genetic counsellor and geneticists with a fictitious family (proband had a BRCA2 pathogenic variant with triple-negative breast cancer, her older sister-BRCA2 heterozygous, and cousin-negative for BRCA2 variant).

Methods

Twenty-one surgeons, 5 oncologists, 18 nurses and 9 genetic counsellors participated. Knowl

SUBMITTER: Fallowfield L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9470577 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature