Genetic Counseling Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Process of Prenatal Genetic Counseling Using a Simulated Client - A Pilot Study
This study will examine the process of prenatal genetic counseling to determine how various
client and counselor factors affect the communication process in a counseling session. The
specific aims of the study are to:
- Provide information on prenatal genetic counselors' interactions with clients for the
basis of a future larger study of the genetic counseling process.
- Determine the average length and the range of length of prenatal genetic counselors'
interactions with clients when family history information has already been provided.
- Document on videotape the communication content and interaction dynamics of prenatal
genetic counselors interacting with clients in order to:
- Characterize different models of prenatal genetic counseling
- Determine the nature of discussions concerning cystic fibrosis carrier testing within
the context of prenatal genetic counseling.
- Examine the impact of prenatal genetic counselors' characteristics (years of
experience, training and background, age, clinical setting, anxiety) on the
communication content and interaction dynamics of sessions with clients.
- Examine the impact of the presence of a spouse on the communication content and
interaction dynamics of prenatal genetic counseling sessions with clients.
- Examine the impact of client verbal emotional cues on the communication content and
interaction dynamics of prenatal genetic counseling sessions.
Counselors will be recruited for this study from among practicing prenatal genetic
counselors at regional meetings and a national meeting of the National Society of Genetic
Counselors. They will perform prenatal genetic counseling sessions with actors in the roles
of client and client's spouse. The sessions will be videotaped, and the counselor and actors
will fill out questionnaires regarding the characteristics of the counselor and the session.
Counselors may be contacted later to request permission to use segments of their videotaped
sessions for creating a video teaching tool for counseling professionals that illustrates
different ways to practice the genetic counseling.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 30 |
Est. completion date | April 2003 |
Est. primary completion date | |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | Both |
Age group | N/A and older |
Eligibility |
INCLUSION CRITERIA: Any master's trained genetic counselors attending the 2002 regional meetings and/or a national meeting of the National Society of Genetic Counselors who currently provide prenatal genetic counseling services as part of their professional practices will be included in the study. In addition, any prenatal genetic counselors referred by these individuals, but who did not attend these meetings, will also be eligible to participate. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: Genetic counselors who do not practice prenatal counseling training programs will be excluded In addition, master's level students currently in genetic counseling training programs will be excluded from the study because differences in their stages of training and practice development would introduce additional variability into the data set. |
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Country | Name | City | State |
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United States | National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) | Bethesda | Maryland |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) |
United States,
Bernhardt BA, Biesecker BB, Mastromarino CL. Goals, benefits, and outcomes of genetic counseling: client and genetic counselor assessment. Am J Med Genet. 2000 Sep 18;94(3):189-97. — View Citation
Bernhardt BA, Geller G, Doksum T, Larson SM, Roter D, Holtzman NA. Prenatal genetic testing: content of discussions between obstetric providers and pregnant women. Obstet Gynecol. 1998 May;91(5 Pt 1):648-55. — View Citation
Biesecker BB, Peters KF. Process studies in genetic counseling: peering into the black box. Am J Med Genet. 2001 Fall;106(3):191-8. — View Citation
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