AAs had a broader view of the risks and benefits of receiving individual genetic results than non-AAs. About half of AA participants expressed worry about the psychological impact of receiving results. Some AA participants (n=7/41, 17%) were worried about receiving “bad news.” Several AA participants worried that learning about a genetic risk could cause a health condition or symptom. As this mother described, “’Cause the power of suggestion goes a long way with me. Yeah, you can think you're si- if you really wanna be sick, you can seriously think yourself sick” (AA mother, P11-01). One AA participant voiced that the scope of results returned from WGS could overwhelm an already stressful life: Cause I am in a stressful life. This world is stressful to me, I gotta, you gotta watch everything now. . . . So, no. Just let me live. Thank God for letting me wake up one day at a time. If He take it, He take it. But don’t tell me about it. (AA father, P13-05)
