ArticleJournal of community genetics2010
Family matters: examining a multi-family group intervention for women with BRCA mutations in the scope of genetic counselling.
Article in Journal of community genetics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Family Adjustment to Hereditary Cancer Syndromes: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Family Communication, Risk Perception and Cancer Knowledge of Young Adults from BRCA1/2 Families: a Systematic Review.Journal of genetic counseling · 2017Pooled it
- Family-oriented support in genetic counselling: a scoping review of clinical practice and psychotherapeutic interventions.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2026Review
- Narratives before numbers: Reimagining conversations about race, ethnicity, and ancestry information in genetic counseling practice.Journal of genetic counseling · 2025Article
- Narrative therapy and family therapy in genetic counseling: A scoping review.Journal of genetic counseling · 2025Article
- Health-related roles of older generations in families with inherited genetic conditions: a scoping review.Journal of community genetics · 2024Article
- "I don't need any more unknowns hanging over my head": Views of patients with cancer on variants of uncertain significance and low/moderate risk results from genomic sequencing.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2023Article
- Perceptions and care Recommendations from Previvors: Qualitative analysis of female BRCA1/2 mutation Carriers' experience with genetic testing and counseling.Gynecologic oncology reports · 2022Article
- "I have always lived with the disease in the family": family adaptation to hereditary cancer-risk.BMC primary care · 2022Article
- Article
- Psychosocial Interventions for Women with aCancers · 2021Article
- Intrafamilial communication of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer genetic information in Italian women: towards a personalised approach.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2021Article
- A family systems approach to genetic counseling: Development of narrative interventions.Journal of genetic counseling · 2021Article
- Waiting and "weighted down": the challenge of anticipatory loss for individuals and families with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome.Familial cancer · 2020Article
- Training Genetic Counsellors to Deliver an Innovative Therapeutic Intervention: their Views and Experience of Facilitating Multi-Family Discussion Groups.Journal of genetic counseling · 2017Article
- Genetic Counseling in Portugal: Education, Practice and a Developing Profession.Journal of genetic counseling · 2015Article
- From constraints to opportunities? Provision of psychosocial support in portuguese oncogenetic counseling services.Journal of genetic counseling · 2013Article
- Are family-oriented interventions in Portuguese genetics services a remote possibility? Professionals' views on a multifamily intervention for cancer susceptibility families.Journal of community genetics · 2012Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The availability of family-centred services for women genetically at-risk for breast and ovarian cancer (BRCA) due to deleterious genetic mutations is still scarce, despite the distress that these women and their families may experience. This study describes a multi-family group intervention for women who tested positive for BRCA mutations and their families. Methods include a time-limited psycho-educational programme involving educational and support components and consisting of four semi-structured multi-family sessions. Three families (a total of nine people) attended the programme in genetic counselling for hereditary cancers at a Portuguese public hospital. A focus group interview was performed 1 month after the last session to assess both the practical and the psychosocial impacts and to collect suggestions from participants. The present paper focuses on the practical aspects of the intervention, its development and its evaluation. Participants reported that the programme is well-structured and that responds to the needs of patients and their families by improving coping skills and medical awareness in the adaptation to genetic illness. Results reinforce the need to integrate psychosocial and family-oriented interventions in genetic counselling, addressing the holistic experience of hereditary disease. Recommendations for enhancing the services available are provided. The multi-family discussion group, combining educative and supportive services with a family focus, can be successfully adapted in genetic counselling protocols.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.