Table 4.
Associations between personal characteristics and uptake of genetic testing for lung cancer risk in bivariate analyses (n = 116)
| Variable | Uptake |
Significance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| did not take genetic test | took genetic test | ||
| Socio-demographics | |||
| Gender | |||
| Male | 35 (65%) | 19 (35%) | χ2 = 0.32, p = 0.57 |
| Female | 37 (60%) | 5 (40%) | |
| Age, years | |||
| 20-33 | 30 (73%) | 11 (27%) | χ2 = 6.67, p = 0.036 |
| 34-45 | 18 (46%) | 21 (54%) | |
| 46-54 | 24 (67%) | 12 (33%) | |
| Education | |||
| High school or less | 33 (67%) | 16 (33%) | χ2 = 1.20, p = 0.55 |
| Some college | 23 (56%) | 18 (44%) | |
| College graduate | 15 (62%) | 10 (39%) | |
| Employment | |||
| Unemployed/part-time employed | 21 (66%) | 11 (34%) | χ2 = 0.24, p = 0.63 |
| Full-time employed | 51 (61%) | 33 (39%) | |
| Frequency of Internet access | |||
| Less than daily access | 25 (81%) | 6 (19%) | χ2 = 6.20, p = 0.013 |
| Daily access | 47 (55%) | 38 (45%) | |
| Awareness and cognitions | |||
| Prior awareness of genetic tests for cancer risk | |||
| Not aware | 42 (71%) | 17 (29%) | χ2 = 4.24, p = 0.039 |
| Aware | 30 (53%) | 27 (47%) | |
| Perceived risk of lung cancer, mean (SD) | 5.25 (1.16) | 5.52 (0.98) | F = 1.70, p = 0.20 |
| Worry about lung cancer, mean (SD) | 3.51 (1.20) | 3.91 (1.20) | F = 2.97, p = 0.087 |
| Positive attitudes towards genetic testing, mean (SD) | 4.29 (0.73) | 4.52 (0.73) | F = 0.75, p = 0.39 |
| Negative attitudes towards genetic testing, mean (SD) | 1.99 (0.85) | 1.94 (0.81) | F = 0.08, p = 0.78 |
| Smoking characteristics | |||
| Motivation to quit smoking, mean (SD) | 5.72 (1.58) | 6.34 (1.18) | F = 5.04, p = 0.027 |
| Number of cigarettes per day, mean (SD) | 17.17 (8.99) | 16.25 (7.19) | F = 0.33, p = 0.57 |
| Minutes until first cigarette, mean (SD) | 48.39 (73.03) | 52.86 (92.33) | F = 0.08, p = 0.77 |