Professionals' accounts of genetic testing in adoption: a qualitative study
Interviews with 12 social workers and eight medical advisers explored retrospective genetic-testing cases in adoption. Social workers tended to describe testing as giving definitive answers, while medical advisers emphasised uncertainty and potential misunderstanding. Medical advisers also reported requests for testing they considered inappropriate.
Limitations: Professionals’ retrospective accounts, not adoptee testimony or an audit of testing accuracy; selected cases cannot establish the prevalence of inappropriate requests.
- Research type
- Qualitative interview study
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children
Adoption context: Adoption from care
Programme: Not recorded
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified in indexed metadata reviewed. Affiliations, funding and conflicts have not been comprehensively audited; this does not confirm institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: genetic testing, medical history, professional perspectives
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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- Adoptee involvement
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