What Can Interest Tell Us about Uptake of Genetic Testing? Intention and Behavior amongst Smokers Related to Patients with Lung Cancer | Zendy

Saskia C. Sanderson | Zendy; S C O’Neill | Zendy; Lori A. Bastian | Zendy; Gerold Bepler | Zendy; Colleen M. McBride | Zendy

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What Can Interest Tell Us about Uptake of Genetic Testing? Intention and Behavior amongst Smokers Related to Patients with Lung Cancer

Author(s) -

Saskia C. Sanderson,

S C O’Neill,

Lori A. Bastian,

Gerold Bepler,

Colleen M. McBride

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

public health genomics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.701

H-Index - 51

eISSN - 1662-8063

pISSN - 1662-4246

DOI - 10.1159/000226595

Subject(s) - genetic testing , lung cancer , cancer , medicine , intensive care medicine , psychology , oncology

Much of the research examining psychosocial aspects of genetic testing has used hypothetical scenarios, based on the largely untested assumption that hypothetical genetic testing intentions are good proxies for behavior. We tested whether hypothetical interest predicts uptake of genetic testing and whether factors that predict interest also predict uptake.

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