Communication of Genetic and Genomic Information to Lay Audiences

向非专业观众传达遗传和基因组信息

• 批准号: 7968901
• 负责人: KIMBERLY A KAPHINGST
• 金额: $ 65.25万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7968901
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Affect; Affective; African American; Age; Area; Attitude; Behavior; Behavioral; Belief; Characteristics; Cognitive; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Community Health Centers; Complex; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Diagnosis; Disease; Education; Environment; Family history of; Future; Gene Family; General Population; Genetic; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Genetic Risk; Genomics; Goals; Health Communication; Health Professional; Human Genome Project; Individual; Investigation; Knowledge; Laboratories; Laboratory Study; Language; Malignant Neoplasms; Medical; Modeling; New York; Online Systems; Outcome; Participant; Patients; Phase; Physicians; Population; Preventive Medicine; Process; Public Health; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Risk Estimate; Sampling; Social Identification; Testing; Translating; Trust; United States National Institutes of Health; base; design; disorder risk; health literacy; literacy; skills; virtual

One important possible benefit of the Human Genome Project is individualized preventive medicine based on genetic risk. In order for individuals to benefit from information about their genetic susceptibility, however, medical and public health professionals need to be able to communicate the information in ways that individuals can both understand and apply. The challenges involved in such communication are substantial; complex concepts must be conveyed and the information is often probabilistic. Individuals levels of skills and conceptual knowledge, or their genetic literacy, also need to be considered. Although the genetic literacy of U.S. adults has not been quantified, existing research has demonstrated that nearly one-half of the population has limitations in their general health literacy skills. This project therefore focuses on the health communication challenge of developing and testing strategies that present genetic and genomic information so that the skills required to understand and apply the information do not surpass the genetic literacy levels of the intended target audience. We are currently conducting two major lines of research to address these issues; the first is being conducted in a highly controlled laboratory setting and the second in more naturalistic, community-based settings. Our current laboratory study is being conducted in the NIH Immersive Virtual Environment Testing Area (IVETA). This study is designed to investigate how individuals change their disease risk estimates after receiving objective risk information and whether this process is affected by factors such as patient numeracy skills, trust in physicians, or their social identity. We plan to recruit 140 participants who self identify as African American or Black between the ages of 25-40 who have not been diagnosed with cancer for this study. We have recruited about 50 participants to date, and anticipate that data collection will continue through December 2009. The primary research objective of our main community-based study is to investigate health literacy, knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors related to genes and family history among 800 English- and Spanish-speaking patients at community health centers in New York. We completed the first phase of data collection in December 2008 and are currently analyzing these data. We have a second phase of data collection underway, with an anticipated completion date of October 2009. We are also conducting a study to examine understanding of web-based presentations of genetic information among a sample of 60 adults with a range of health literacy levels in collaboration with researchers at Johns Hopkins. Data collection is currently underway on this study.

人类基因组计划可能带来的一个重要好处是基于遗传风险的个体化预防医学。然而，为了使个人受益于有关其遗传易感性的信息，医疗和公共卫生专业人员需要能够以个人既能理解又能应用的方式传达这些信息。这种交流所涉及的挑战是巨大的；必须传达复杂的概念，而信息往往是概率性的。还需要考虑个人的技能和概念知识水平，或他们的基因素养。尽管美国成年人的基因素养尚未被量化，但现有的研究表明，近一半的人口在一般健康素养技能方面存在局限性。因此，本项目侧重于健康传播方面的挑战，即制定和测试提供遗传和基因组信息的战略，以便了解和应用这些信息所需的技能不超过预期目标受众的遗传知识水平。

项目成果

Anchoring-and-adjustment bias in communication of disease risk.

• DOI: 10.1177/0272989x08327395
• 发表时间: 2009-03
• 期刊: Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making
• 作者: Senay I;Kaphingst KA
• 通讯作者: Kaphingst KA

Patient responses to genetic information: studies of patients with hereditary cancer syndromes identify issues for use of genetic testing in nephrology practice.

• DOI: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2010.01.011
• 发表时间: 2010-03
• 期刊: SEMINARS IN NEPHROLOGY
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Kaphingst, Kimberly A.;McBride, Colleen M.
• 通讯作者: McBride, Colleen M.

Testing communication strategies to convey genomic concepts using virtual reality technology.

• DOI: 10.1080/10810730902873927
• 发表时间: 2009-06
• 期刊: Journal of health communication
• 影响因子: 4.4
• 作者: Kaphingst KA;Persky S;McCall C;Lachance C;Beall AC;Blascovich J
• 通讯作者: Blascovich J

Presence relates to distinct outcomes in two virtual environments employing different learning modalities.

• DOI: 10.1089/cpb.2008.0262
• 发表时间: 2009-06
• 期刊: Cyberpsychology & behavior : the impact of the Internet, multimedia and virtual reality on behavior and society
• 作者: Persky S;Kaphingst KA;McCall C;Lachance C;Beall AC;Blascovich J
• 通讯作者: Blascovich J