Table 2.

Qualitative studies of beliefs about genetic testing in psychiatry

Authors	Year	Subjects	Location	Study design
Campbell & Ross	2004	Genetic professionals (n=13) and pediatricians (n=12) from multiple institutions and parents (n=102) in the Chicago area	Chicago	Semistructured interviews with healthcare professionals, and focus groups with parents
Meiser et al.	2005	Participants in a study on the molecular genetics of bipolar disorder (n=22)	Australia	Individual interviews and focus groups
Wilde et al.	2009	Persons selected by a market research company to have evenly mixed gender, age, and socio-demographic backgrounds (n=36)	Australia	Focus groups
Murphy & Thompson	2009	Persons recruited from flyers posted in the community, most non-Hispanic blacks with depression/anxiety (n=26)	New York	Focus groups
Laegsgaard et al.	2010	Participants in a genetic study on depression (n=17)	Denmark	Focus groups
Wilde et al.	2010	Same sample as Wilde et al., 2009	Australia	Focus groups