Extensive evidence documents that prenatal maternal stress predicts a variety of adverse
physical and psychological health outcomes for the mother and baby. However, the …

Noninvasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) for chromosomal aneuploidy involving the
analysis of cell-free fetal DNA became commercially available in 2011. The low false …

As the number of genes associated with inherited disease continues to grow, researchers
and practitioners in behavioral medicine will encounter complex psychological issues faced …

Since the mid‐1990s, the Israeli medical scene has witnessed a real boom in elective
prenatal testing for inherited diseases that has spread beyond risk groups to the general …

Complex interventions, involving interlinked packages of care, challenge the application of
current methods of economic evaluation that focus on measuring only health gain. Complex …

Aim To investigate the psychosocial impact of genetic testing for childhood‐onset
developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) in order to identify parents' …

Satisfaction is an important patient reported outcome of genetic counseling, as it is one of
the elements used by professional organizations and healthcare accrediting bodies to …

This review presents an overview of the impact of genetic counseling on risk perception
accuracy in papers published between January 2000 and February 2007. The results …

With the recent completion of the sequencing of the Human Genome, genetic testing will
increasingly become available for a greater number of medical conditions, many of which …

Client anxiety is often associated with diagnostic testing. In this study, the authors used a
grounded theory approach to examine the situational and social factors underlying anxiety …