Information Avoidance, Self-affirmation, and Intentions to Receive Genomic Sequencing Results Among Members of an African Descent Cohort.

Emily B PetersonJennifer M TaberWilliam M P Klein

Published in: Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (2021)

Individuals of African descent may engage in relatively more spontaneous self-affirmation, and do not appear to engage in more information avoidance. Their information avoidance tendencies were associated with pursuit of non-actionable sequencing results, with no moderating effect of self-affirmation, and were not associated with pursuit of actionable results or carrier results.

Keyphrases

health information
single cell
social support
gene expression
copy number
dna methylation
depressive symptoms
social media
genome wide