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Published in final edited form as: Psychooncology. 2009 Oct;18(10):1088–1096. doi: 10.1002/pon.1467

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for distress outcomes

Variable	Pretesting	----------Post-disclosure----------
Variable	Pretesting	1-month	6-months	12-months
Anxiety+depression¹^,c
M	17.76_a	16.43_b	16.00_b	16.05_b
SD	6.08	5.90	5.42	5.24
N	207	209	194	190
Cancer-specific distress²^,d
M	18.63_a	13.09_b	12.26_b	11.80_b
SD	14.58	13.75	13.21	13.16
N	206	209	195	191
Genetic testing distress³^,e
M		8.30_a	6.13_b	5.14_b
SD		9.91	8.48	7.33
N		209	195	184

Note:

¹

Range=12–48;

²

Range=0–75;

³

Means are for two of three factors on the MICRA (range=0–75).

Means in the same row with different subscripts are significantly different (p<.05).