Examining the relationship between genetic counselors' attitudes toward deaf people and the genetic counseling session.

A nearly statistically significant positive correlation was also found between attitude score and comfort level when offering genetic testing for scenario 5 ( r = 0.15, p = 0.06), revealing that more positive attitudes toward deaf people correlate with greater comfort offering genetic testing to a culturally Deaf couple who wishes to have a deaf child.

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Specifically, although it did not reach statistical significance in this sample, we found that genetic counselors with less positive attitudes toward deaf people were less likely to feel that prenatal genetic testing for deafness should be offered to culturally Deaf parents who wish to have a deaf child compared to genetic counselors with more positive attitudes toward deaf people.

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