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Attitudes towards genetic testing: the role of genetic literacy, motivated cognition, and socio-demographic characteristics.
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Description: The current study aims to investigate willingness to undergo genetic testing and the factors that are linked with such a decision, e.g. knowledge, attitudes and a variety of demographic factors. The paper which describes the data is currently published: Likhanov M, Zakharov I, Awofala A, Ogundele O, Selita F, Kovas Y, et al. (2023) Attitudes towards genetic testing: The role of genetic literacy, motivated cognition, and socio-demographic characteristics. PLoS ONE 18(11): e0293187. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293187 This study a part of a larger project, that investigates genetic knowledge and attitudes towards it with a large international survey - IGLAS. More information on the project is available at: https://tagc.world/iglas/ And in a paper that introduced the project: Chapman, R., Likhanov, M., Selita, F. et al. New literacy challenge for the twenty-first century: genetic knowledge is poor even among well educated. J Community Genet 10, 73–84 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12687-018-0363-7
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