Open AccessA New Approach to Assessing Affect and the Emotional Implications of Personal Genomic Testing for Common Disease Risk
Author(s) -
Suzanne C. O’Neill,
Kenneth P. Tercyak,
Chanza Baytop,
Sharon Hensley Alford,
Colleen M. McBride
Publication year - 2015
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 - 10.1159/000370101
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , disease , psychology , cognition , medicine , clinical psychology , psychiatry , communication
Personal genomic testing (PGT) for common disease risk is becoming increasingly frequent, but little is known about people's array of emotional reactions to learning their genomic risk profiles and the psychological harms/benefits of PGT. We conducted a study of post-PGT affect, including positive, neutral, and negative states that may arise after testing.