Table 1 Characteristics of the participants.

From: Patients’ perceptions and practices of informing relatives: a qualitative study within a randomised trial on healthcare-assisted risk disclosure

 

Subgroup

No

Gender

Female

10

Male

7

Age

18–29

1

30–39

2

40–49

2

50–59

5

60–69

4

70–75

3

Highest education

Highschool or less

3

Up to 2 years of post-secondary level

8

>2 years of post-secondary level

6

Cancer history

Yes

13

No

4

Genetic testing

Screening

13

Predictive testing

4

Family diagnosis

Familial breast cancer (Negative screening of breast cancer gene panel, but surveillance with yearly mammograms offered to ARRs)

6

Familial colorectal cancer (Negative screening of colorectal cancer gene panel, but surveillance with colonoscopy every 5th year offered to ARRs)

3

Lynch syndrome (Predictive testing of pathogenic variant in MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 or PMS2 offered to ARRs)

3

Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (Predictive testing of pathogenic variant in BRCA1, BRCA2, or PALB2 offered to ARRs)

5

Study allocation

Control

7

Intervention

10