title: Effects of undergoing multiplex genetic susceptibility testing on parent attitudes towards testing their children.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Parents may pursue common disease risk information about themselves via multiplex genetic susceptibility testing (MGST) for their children.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To prospectively assess whether parents who received MGST disclosed their test results to their child, intended to change the child's health habits, or have the child tested.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty parents who opted for free MGST completed an online survey about a child in their household before undergoing MGST and a follow-up telephone survey 3 months after receiving results.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Few parents (21 %) disclosed results to the child. Undergoing MGST was unrelated to intentions to change the child's health habits but did increase parental willingness to test the child. Greater willingness to test a child was associated with positive attitudes toward pediatric genetic testing and intentions to change the child's health habits.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The experience of receiving MGST had little impact on parents' perceptions or behaviors related to their minor child.
authors: Social and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA, acmadeo@gmail.com.
authors: Anne C
authors: AC
authors: Madeo
authors: Kenneth P
authors: KP
authors: Tercyak
authors: Beth A
authors: BA
authors: Tarini
authors: Colleen M
authors: CM
authors: McBride
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D030881:Disclosure; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D005820:Genetic Testing; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult