Identifying and Addressing Genetic Counseling Challenges among Indigenous People of Oaxaca —One Center’s Experience with Two Immigrant Farmworker Families in the Central Valley of California

We report on our experience with two families of this community —one extended family with an early lethal inborn error of metabolism and the other with a chronic disfiguring form of ichthyosis. We identified multiple important factors that needed to be considered, including the matching of language dialects, adaptation to different social interaction conventio ns, acknowledgement of traditional medicine beliefs, and effective transmission of genetic terms and concepts, all of which should be incorporated into the interactions with these families when aiming to provide comprehensive genetic counseling.
Source: Journal of Genetic Counseling - Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research