PHYSICIANS KNOWLEDGE OF GENETICS AND GENETIC TESTS
PHYSICIANS KNOWLEDGE OF GENETICS AND GENETIC TESTS
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DOI：
10.1097/00001888-199308000-00013
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发表时间：
1993-08-01
影响因子：
7.4
通讯作者：
HOLTZMAN, NA
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作者：
HOFMAN, KJ;TAMBOR, ES;HOLTZMAN, NA
Purpose. To assess primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' knowledge of genetics and genetic tests and the factors associated with differences in these physicians' knowledge. Method. Questionnaires were mailed in 1991 to 1,795 primary care physicians (family physicians, internists, pediatricians, obstetrician-gynecologists) and psychiatrists who had graduated from medical school between 1950 and 1985 (67.6% of the sample had graduated after 1970) and who were members of professional societies. The questions elicited demographic and practice characteristics as well as knowledge of genetics concepts and facts and awareness of the availability of genetic tests. To validate the questionnaire, 360 medical geneticists and genetic counselors received questionnaires. Statistical analysis involved are-sine function transformation, t-tests, analyses of variance, F-tests, Tukey's HSD, and stepwise multiple regression. Results. A total of 1,140 (64.8%) of the non-geneticist physicians responded. They correctly answered an average of 73.9%, SD, 13.9%, of the knowledge items, compared with 94.6%, SD, 4.2%, for the genetics professionals (p
