Attitudes towards predictive testing in Huntington's disease: a recent survey in Belgium.
After the publication of evidence of the existence of a DNA polymorphism closely linked to the gene for Huntington's disease, attitudes towards predictive testing for Huntington's disease were evaluated in Belgium in a group of persons who are at risk for the disease and in a smaller group of their partners. The percentage of persons at risk who planned to take the test was smaller than in many previously published studies. Our results revealed a lack of association between the intention to take the test and social or demographic variables. Specific attention was paid to the difference in intention between a person at risk and his or her partner and to the opinions about the way the decision to take the test should be made.
D001290:Attitude; D001530:Belgium; D005260:Female; D006579:Heterozygote; D006801:Humans; D006816:Huntington Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010298:Parity; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D012306:Risk; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors