Table 3.
Overview of variables
| Step | Description | Actually communicated DNA-test result (means, sd) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | Unclassified-variant | Pathogenic-mutation | Uninformative-result | ||
| I | Actually communicated | ||||
| Communicated to proband: unclassified-variant, pathogenic-mutation, uninformative (n,%) | 13 (1.0) | 7 (1.0) | 5 (1.0) | ||
| Cancer-risks (% rescaled to 1–7 scale) | 4.9 (1.2) | 4.0 (1.0) | 6.0 (0.0) | 3.0 (0.0) | |
| III | Probands’ recollections | ||||
| Recollection of unclassified-variant, pathogenic-mutation, uninformative (n,%) | 11 (.45) | 11 (.45) | 2 (.1) | ||
| Recalled own cancer-risks | 4.7 (1.4) | 4.6 (1.5) | 5.2 (.4) | 3.5 (.6) | |
| Recalled heredity-likelihood | 4.6 (1.9) | 4.5 (.7) | 6.2 (1.2) | 2.3 (.8) | |
| IV | Probands’ interpretations | ||||
| Interpreted own cancer-risks | 6.0 (1.7) | 6.5 (1.2) | 4.1 (1.7) | 4.1 (.9) | |
| Interpreted heredity-likelihood | 6.4 (1.3) | 5.5 (.7) | 7.0 (.0) | 4.7 (2.3) | |
| Interpreted relatives’ cancer-risks | 5.5 (1.2) | 5.3 (1.4) | 6.7 (.8) | 5.3 (.8) | |
| VI | Relatives’ recollections | ||||
| Recollection of: unclassified-variant, pathogenic-mutation, uninformative (n,%) | 19 (.3) | 35 (.5) | 14 (.2) | ||
| Recalled own cancer-risks | 4.9 (1.0) | 4.9 (.9) | 5.7 (.7) | 3.9 (1.1) | |
| Recalled heredity-likelihood | 3.4 (1.4) | 3.9 (1.2) | 5.0 (.0) | 2.4 (1.2) | |
| VII | Relatives’ interpretations | ||||
| Interpreted own cancer-risks | 3.8 (1.4) | 4.3 (1.0) | 5.0 (.0) | 2.9 (1.3) | |
| Interpreted heredity-likelihood | 3.8 (1.3) | 4.0 (1.4) | 3.0 (1.2) | 4.1 (.8) | |