Disclosure of Stress Test Results

Effect of Acupressure on Non-stress Test (NST) Results: A Randomized-Controlled Trial Study

BackgroundPregnancy and delivery are among the most stressful events in women’s life . Breech presentation is defined as a fetus in a longitudinal lie with the buttocks or feet closest to the cervix. This occurs in 3-4% of all deliveries.The risk for perinatal mortality was 1 in 300 for planned breech deliveries.Some conventional non-surgical therapies for breech presentation are available. acu...

Test Design and Disclosure

An initially uninformed agent wishes to sell an asset to a competitive market. The agent selects a test that may generate a result that is informative about the asset’s quality and can be disclosed to the market. The test may not yield a result and the agent can choose to hide some results. Both the test choice and the disclosure policy are strategic. We characterize the unique equilibrium outc...

Decisional outcomes of maternal disclosure of BRCA1/2 genetic test results to children.

BACKGROUND Although BRCA1/2 genetic testing is discouraged in minors, mothers may disclose their own results to their children. Factors affecting patients' disclosure decisions and patient outcomes of disclosure are largely unknown. METHODS Mothers (N = 221) of children aged 8 to 21 years enrolled in this prospective study of family communication about cancer genetic testing. Patients underwe...

Preconceptional couple screening for cystic fibrosis carrier status: couples prefer full disclosure of test results.

Carrier screening programmes, aimed at the identification of carrier couples in the general population, provide these couples with the opportunity to be informed about their risk and about the reproductive options that are available. It has been argued that the imperfect sensitivity of the carrier test, for example in the case of cystic fibrosis (CF), might cause anxiety in couples if a mutatio...

Psychological Impact and Associated Factors After Disclosure of Genetic Test Results Concerning Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer