Open AccessPublic Understanding of Risks from Gene-Environment Interaction in Common Diseases: Implications for Public Communications
Author(s) -
Celeste M. Condit,
Lijiang Shen
Publication year - 2010
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 - 10.1159/000314915
Subject(s) - risk communication , public health , business , environmental health , risk analysis (engineering) , medicine , nursing
Public understanding of the relationship between health behaviors and genes is likely to affect the motivational impact of learning information about one's own genes. Extant research has featured difficulty measuring public understandings of this relationship. This essay explores public understanding of the relationship between genes and behavior, especially with regard to the mathematical relationships to risk concept. It contributes a psychometrically valid scale for measuring beliefs about gene- behavior relationships.