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Employees’ Views and Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Assessment of Voluntary Workplace Genomic Testing
Employers have begun to offer voluntary workplace genomic testing (wGT) as part of employee wellness benefit programs, but few empirical studies have examined the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of wGT. To better understand employee perspectives on wGT, employees were surveyed at a la...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8010177/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33815477 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.643304 |
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author | Sanghavi, Kunal Feero, W. Gregory Mathews, Debra J. H. Prince, Anya E. R. Price, Lori Lyn Liu, Edison T. Brothers, Kyle B. Roberts, J. Scott Lee, Charles |
author_facet | Sanghavi, Kunal Feero, W. Gregory Mathews, Debra J. H. Prince, Anya E. R. Price, Lori Lyn Liu, Edison T. Brothers, Kyle B. Roberts, J. Scott Lee, Charles |
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description | Employers have begun to offer voluntary workplace genomic testing (wGT) as part of employee wellness benefit programs, but few empirical studies have examined the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of wGT. To better understand employee perspectives on wGT, employees were surveyed at a large biomedical research institution. Survey respondents were presented with three hypothetical scenarios for accessing health-related genomic testing: via (1) their doctor; (2) their workplace; and 3) a commercial direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing company. Overall, 594 employees (28%) responded to the survey. Respondents indicated a preference for genomic testing in the workplace setting (70%; 95% CI 66–74%), followed by doctor’s office (54%; 95% CI 50–58%), and DTC testing (20%; 95% CI 17–24%). Prior to participating in wGT, respondents wanted to know about confidentiality of test results (79%), existence of relevant laws and policies (70%), and privacy protection (64%). Across scenarios, 92% of respondents preferred to view the test results with a genetic counselor. These preliminary results suggest that many employees are interested and even prefer genetic testing in the workplace and would prefer testing with support from genetic health professionals. Confirmation in more diverse employer settings will be needed to generalize such findings. |
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spelling | pubmed-80101772021-04-01 Employees’ Views and Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Assessment of Voluntary Workplace Genomic Testing Sanghavi, Kunal Feero, W. Gregory Mathews, Debra J. H. Prince, Anya E. R. Price, Lori Lyn Liu, Edison T. Brothers, Kyle B. Roberts, J. Scott Lee, Charles Front Genet Genetics Employers have begun to offer voluntary workplace genomic testing (wGT) as part of employee wellness benefit programs, but few empirical studies have examined the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of wGT. To better understand employee perspectives on wGT, employees were surveyed at a large biomedical research institution. Survey respondents were presented with three hypothetical scenarios for accessing health-related genomic testing: via (1) their doctor; (2) their workplace; and 3) a commercial direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing company. Overall, 594 employees (28%) responded to the survey. Respondents indicated a preference for genomic testing in the workplace setting (70%; 95% CI 66–74%), followed by doctor’s office (54%; 95% CI 50–58%), and DTC testing (20%; 95% CI 17–24%). Prior to participating in wGT, respondents wanted to know about confidentiality of test results (79%), existence of relevant laws and policies (70%), and privacy protection (64%). Across scenarios, 92% of respondents preferred to view the test results with a genetic counselor. These preliminary results suggest that many employees are interested and even prefer genetic testing in the workplace and would prefer testing with support from genetic health professionals. Confirmation in more diverse employer settings will be needed to generalize such findings. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8010177/ /pubmed/33815477 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.643304 Text en Copyright © 2021 Sanghavi, Feero, Mathews, Prince, Price, Liu, Brothers, Roberts and Lee. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Genetics Sanghavi, Kunal Feero, W. Gregory Mathews, Debra J. H. Prince, Anya E. R. Price, Lori Lyn Liu, Edison T. Brothers, Kyle B. Roberts, J. Scott Lee, Charles Employees’ Views and Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Assessment of Voluntary Workplace Genomic Testing |
title | Employees’ Views and Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Assessment of Voluntary Workplace Genomic Testing |
title_full | Employees’ Views and Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Assessment of Voluntary Workplace Genomic Testing |
title_fullStr | Employees’ Views and Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Assessment of Voluntary Workplace Genomic Testing |
title_full_unstemmed | Employees’ Views and Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Assessment of Voluntary Workplace Genomic Testing |
title_short | Employees’ Views and Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Assessment of Voluntary Workplace Genomic Testing |
title_sort | employees’ views and ethical, legal, and social implications assessment of voluntary workplace genomic testing |
topic | Genetics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8010177/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33815477 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.643304 |
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