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cord-012932-alxtoaq9	Smerecnik, Chris M. R.	A Systematic Review of the Impact of Genetic Counseling on Risk Perception Accuracy	2009-06-01		.txt	text/plain	5039	262	44	Thus, the purpose of the present review is twofold: (1) to provide an updated overview of the impact of genetic counseling on risk perception accuracy in papers published between January 2000 and February 2007, and (2) to extend the results of Meiser and Halliday's (2002) meta-analysis and Butow et al.'s (2003) systematic review to other genetic conditions. Linking the outcome (i.e., risk perception accuracy) to the content of the counseling session (i.e., whether counselors performed the tasks as recommended by the NSGC Task Force), we observed that the studies in which the counselor gave information about family history and heredity as well as personal risk estimates positively influenced risk perception accuracy (Bjorvatn et al. The research in the present review may shed some light on why some studies observe positive effects of genetic counseling on risk perception accuracy and others do not.	./cache/cord-012932-alxtoaq9.txt	./txt/cord-012932-alxtoaq9.txt