title: Psychosocial factors affecting uptake of prenatal genetic testing: a pilot study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aims to explore the psychosocial factors which influenced the undergoing of prenatal genetic testing (PGT) in a sample of pregnant women.
  
  
  METHODS
  An online questionnaire was emailed to a convenient sample of 105 pregnant women, recruited from among those attending two antenatal education programmes and via snowball sampling.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A minority of respondents underwent chorionic villous sampling and amniocentesis (12 and 11, respectively). Advanced maternal age was related to undertaking PGT. The path analysis model (χ(2) (16, N = 97) = 19.01, ns; TLI = 0.95; RMSEA = 0.04; WRMR = 0.64) confirmed that three dimensions, namely having a more supporting attitude towards PGT (β = 0.54, p < 0.001), perceiving PGT as reliable (β = 0.29, p < 0.05) and the request for more scientific information (β = 0.22, p < 0.01), related to test uptaking.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Empirical researches investigating pregnant women's beliefs and attitudes relating to actual test uptake could help genetic counsellors and policy makers to better understand their client's profile in relation to the determining factors affecting the undertaking of PGT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological, Humanistic and Territorial Sciences, University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pivetti
authors.forename: Giannino
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Melotti
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Morselli
authors.forename: Mariangela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Olivieri
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D005820:Genetic Testing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008423:Maternal Age; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011584:Psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult