Comic Book to Increase Health Literacy about Carrier Screening

  • Date: 2017- 2019
  • Type: Research
  • Investigators / Instructors / Facilitators:

    PI: Jeffrey Botkin.
    Research Team: Rebecca Anderson, Sydney Cheek-O’Donnell, Nancy Rose, Erin Rothwell, Bob Wong.
    Comic Artist & Writer: Sarah Morton
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This study will address the growing need to develop innovative approaches to improve education about expanded carrier screening in obstetrics. With a comic book we aim to improve knowledge and satisfaction, and lower decisional conflict about expanded carrier screening among pregnant women and their partners, particularly for those with lower health literacy.

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