一项关于美国普通公众对遗传测试的认识,知识和偏好的调查
Shahariar Mohammed Fahim1, Salisa C Westrick2, Jingjing Qian2
1Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), Boston, MA 02108, USA.
Personalized medicine
|February 21, 2024
概括
大多数美国人知道基因检测,但低估了它在肥胖和心理健康方面的作用. 大多数人更喜欢主动的药物遗传测试,而不是反应性测试,强调需要患者和临床医生的讨论.
科学领域:
- 遗传学 遗传学 是一个
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 医学基因组学 医学基因组学
背景情况:
- 公众对基因测试的认识和理解对于明智的医疗保健决策至关重要.
- 遗传检测包括各种类型,包括祖先,健康风险和药物遗传检测.
- 社会人口统计学因素可能会影响公众对基因测试的看法和偏好.
研究的目的:
- 评估公众对美国不同类型遗传检测的认识,知识和偏好.
- 识别各种种族/族裔和地理群体之间意识和知识的差异.
- 了解公众对预防性和反应性药物遗传测试的偏好.
主要方法:
- 在美国,在1600名受访者中进行了一项横截面在线调查.
- 该调查利用一个Qualtrics小组收集有关意识,知识和偏好的数据.
- 分析了数据,以确定基于种族/种族和农村-城市居住的差异.
主要成果:
- 对祖先测试 (87%) 和遗传健康风险测试 (69%) 的认识很高.
- 很大一部分公众低估了遗传对肥胖 (36%) 和心理健康 (33%) 的影响.
- 大多数 (74%) 的人更喜欢先发制药遗传测试,而不是反应性测试,观察到显著的人口差异.
结论:
- 公众偏好倾向于预防性药物遗传测试,尽管有显著的部分人更喜欢反应性方法.
- 需要提高对遗传检测在肥胖和心理健康等健康状况中的作用的认识.
- 患者与临床医生的讨论对于解决个人偏好和优化医疗保健中遗传检测的使用至关重要.
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