ArticlePublic health genomics2011
Public understanding of risks from gene-environment interaction in common diseases: implications for public communications.
Article in Public health genomics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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- Interpretations of education about gene-environment influences on health in rural Ethiopia: the context of a neglected tropical disease.International health · 2016Article
- Parents' Experience with Pediatric Microarray: Transferrable Lessons in the Era of Genomic Counseling.Journal of genetic counseling · 2016Article
- Characteristics of genetics-related news content in Black weekly newspapers.Public health genomics · 2014Article
- Priorities for autism spectrum disorder risk communication and ethics.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2013Article
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aimsPublic 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.
methodsThree population representative surveys (n = 633, 658, 1,218) were conducted using the Knowledge Networks panel platform.
resultsInterpretations of risk vary depending on whether genes and behavior are conceived of as health-damaging (loss frame) or health-protecting (gain frame). In the loss frame, the majority of the population adopts an additive model of the relationship with approximately one-third adopting an amplificative model. In the gain frame, beliefs are divided roughly equally among additive, amplificative and sub-additive models. Scores on the nonmathematically based scale indicate higher belief in the existence of interaction than scores on the more concrete question format.
conclusionsThe existence of different interpretations of gene-behavior relationships based on gain/loss frame and abstract/concrete modes indicates the need to select frame and mode carefully in both teaching and research. Research is needed to identify optimal configurations for teaching and presenting this relatively complex material.
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