Telephone versus in-person genetic counseling for hereditary cancer risk: Patient predictors of differential outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Telegenetics has become the predominant mode of cancer genetic counseling during the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to identify potential patient-level contraindicators for telegenetic genetic counseling.

Methods

We analyzed post-counseling (pre-result disclosure) follow-up data from a randomized noninferiority trial of a telephone genetic counseling versus usual care genetic counseling. Among 669 randomized participants, 600 completed pre-test counseling and 568 completed a 2-week follow-up assessment before receiving test results. In this analysis, we focused on genetic counseling outcomes (knowledge, decisional conflict, and distress). In multivariate models controlling for bivariate predictors of these outcomes, we tested our a priori hypotheses that pre-counseling

SUBMITTER: Binion S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9902210 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature