. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 26.

Published in final edited form as: J Genet Couns. 2011 Aug 9;21(1):59–71. doi: 10.1007/s10897-011-9391-8

Table 2.

Fragile X Visual Analog Scale (FX-VAS) (“being a mother” and biological children)

FX-VAS item	Carrier (n=20)	Non-carrier (n=18)	At-risk (n=15)
In your overall life plan, how important is it to you to be a mother?	Mean=2.4	Mean=1.9	Mean=4.6^*
(0 = very important 10 = not important)	(s.d.=3.1)	(s.d.=3.1)	(s.d.=3.2)
If you did not have your own biological children how would you feel?	Mean=5.0	Mean=5.1	Mean=5.8
(0 = very upset; 10 = not upset)	(s.d.=2.6)	(s.d.=2.9)	(s.d=2.7)

p=0.037 (Nonparmetric Kruskal-Wallis)