Table 1.
Participant characteristics (N=56)
| Characteristics | Mothers (N=32) M (SD) |
N (%) | Co-parents (N=24) M (SD) |
N (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 46.4 (6.7) | 49.9 (9.2) | ||
| Gender | ||||
| Female | 32 (100.0) | 1 (4.2) | ||
| Male | 0 | 23 (95.8) | ||
| Race | ||||
| Caucasian | 23 (71.9) | 22 (91.7) | ||
| Noncaucasian | 9 (28.1) | 2 (8.3) | ||
| Education | ||||
| <College | 8 (25.0) | 4 (16.7) | ||
| ≥College | 24 (75.0) | 20 (83.3) | ||
| Household Income | ||||
| <$75k | 11 (34.4) | 5 (21.8) | ||
| ≥$75k | 21 (65.6) | 19 (79.2) | ||
| Married/living as married | 25 (78.1) | 23 (95.8) | ||
| Child Age | 12.9 (3.8) | 11.8 (3.1) | ||
| Child Gender | ||||
| Female | 18 (56.3) | 14 (58.3) | ||
| Male | 14 (43.7) | 10 (41.7) | ||
| Relationship to child | ||||
| Biological Parent | 32 (100.0) | 21 (87.5) | ||
| Step-Parent | 0 | 2 (8.3) | ||
| Partner of mother | 0 | 1 (4.2) | ||
| * Maternal cancer history | 21 (65.6) | 14 (58.3) | ||
| Breast Cancer | 17 (53.1) | 12 (50.0) | ||
| Ovarian Cancer | 2 (6.2) | 1 (4.2) | ||
| Breast and Ovarian Cancer | 1 (3.1) | 1 (4.2) | ||
| * Maternal BRCA1/2 carrier status | ||||
| True negative | 11 (34.4) | 9 (37.5) | ||
| Uninformative | 8 (25.0) | 4 (16.7) | ||
| Positive | 13 (40.6) | 11 (45.8) | ||
*
Note: Refers to mothers in study; for co-parents refers to their tested partner