Table 7.

Parents’ Perceptions Regarding Reproductive Decision Making

	%
Perception of 25% recurrence risk
Risk considered high	77
Risk considered low	11
Risk considered information of no value	12
Parents who acknowledged benefit of genetic counseling in family planning	56
Parents who worry about possible recurrence	53
Parents who want another child with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)	3
Parents who preplanned number of children prior to SMA	81
Parents who chose to limit subsequent pregnancies due to SMA	53
Subsequent pregnancies in which parents chose prenatal diagnosis	21
Prenatal diagnostic choice in those undergoing prenatal diagnosis
Chorionic villus sampling (CVS)	33
Amniocentesis	40
Preimplanation genetic diagnosis (PGD)	13
CVS and PGD	13