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Evaluation Review, Vol. 5, No. 6, 745-757 (1981)
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X8100500602

Statistical Analysis of Genetic Counseling Impacts

A Multi-Method Approach to Retrospective Date

Fred J. Sissine

University of Pittsburgh Health Center Genetic Service at Children's and Magee-Women's Hospitals, Pittsburgh

Mark W. Steele

University of Pittsburgh Health Center Genetic Service at Children's and Magee-Women's Hospitals, Pittsburgh

Kenneth L. Garver

University of Pittsburgh Health Center Genetic Service at Children's and Magee-Women's Hospitals, Pittsburgh

Lynette Rosser

University of Pittsburgh Health Center Genetic Service at Children's and Magee-Women's Hospitals, Pittsburgh

Sandra Marchese

University of Pittsburgh Health Center Genetic Service at Children's and Magee-Women's Hospitals, Pittsburgh

Natalie Berman

University of Pittsburgh Health Center Genetic Service at Children's and Magee-Women's Hospitals, Pittsburgh

A double-pronged statistical approach to retrospective data is used to test and develop hypotheses about some impacts of genetic counseling. Both log-linear and discriminant analyses suggest that education and burden centered explanations of postcounseling pregnancies should be modified in favor of a hypothesis based on an interaction of past reproductive experiences and parental desire for children. Log-linear and best subsets regression analyses converge on risk level and socioeconomic status as the key factors accounting for variance in couples' feelings about genetic counseling. Risk level is found to have a questionable effect on postcounseling reproductive behavior while providing the primary impact of all variables explaining couples' feelings about genetic counseling.


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