Table 2.

Cancer worry before and after counseling and 1 year after genetic investigations by cancer status by group

	Before OGNC	After OGNC	pa, zc	1 year after	pb, zc
In-person counseling
Non-affected participants	4.8 (n = 74)	4.0 (n = 50)	p < 0.005 z = -2.98	3.9 (n = 50)	p = 0.576 z = -0.58
Affected participants	5.2 (n = 26)	5.0 (n = 16)	p = 0.786 z = -0.43	5.4 (n = 15)	p = 0.500 z = -0.82
Telephone counseling
Non-affected participants	4.8 (n = 73)	4.1 (n = 63)	p < 0.005 z = -4.2	3.8 (n = 59)	p = 0.547 z = -0.61
Affected participants	4.9 (n = 23)	5.1 (n = 14)	p = 0.217 z = -1.38	4.7 (n = 15)	p = 0.845 z = -0.23

p^a Between before genetic counseling and immediately after OGNC

p^b Between immediately after OGNC and 1 year after genetic counseling process

z^c Wilcoxon matched pairs