PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING (PWB) DAN PENGAMBILAN KEPUTUSAN UNTUK MENGIKUTI KONSELING GENETIKA PADA ORANGTUA ANAK DENGAN TALASEMIA MAYOR
Abstrak: Parents' understanding
about psychological well-being
could affect their
efforts in facing and
accepting the children
with thalassemia major.
Genetic counseling and genetic
screening are some
attempts made to
provide an understanding
about this illness. There
are some factors
that affect parents'
decision to enroll
a genetic counseling or even a
genetic screening.The aim of this research is to find out parents' psychological
well-being and their decision to enroll a genetic counseling. Subjects in this
research are parents of the children with thalassemia major that live in
Central Java. Subjects are about 25-45 years old. The hypothesis of this
research is “there is a positive
correlation between psychological
well-being and the
decision to enroll
a genetic counseling”. Data analysis show r = 0.624;
p> .05 which mean that there is no xysignificant correlation between
psychological well-being and the decision to enroll a genetic counseling.
Penulis: Costrie G. Widayanti,
Kartika Sari Dewi
Kode Jurnal: jppsikologikepribadiandd120048
