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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 2.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Genet. 2011 Nov 2;81(1):10.1111/j.1399-0004.2011.01797.x. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2011.01797.x

Table 1.

Participant Characteristics by Group

Characteristic Control Mean
(n=257)
Unattributed
Risk Mean
(n=253)
Expert Risk
Mean
(n=257)
Χ2-value
(or f-value)
p-value
Age, mean (SD) 36.96 (11.83) 36.92 (11.92) 37.43 (11.84) 1.01* 0.7622

Education, mean (SD) 10.25 (2.4) 10.31 (2.4) 9.96 (2.5) 0.82* 0.6291

Sex (% Women) 100 100 100 -- --

Ethnicity (%) 2.44 0.97
     White 79.53 77.38 80 -- --
     Black 8.27 10.32 8.24 -- --
     Asian 8.66 8.73 7.84 -- --
     Other 3.54 3.57 3.92 -- --

Hispanic 4.74 4.76 2.35 2.57 0.28

Employed Full-Time (%) 53.54 55.95 50.39 1.58 0.45

Married (%) 63.39 64.82 57.54 3.1859 0.203

Health Insurance (%) 80.08 79.84 83.14 1.8645 0.761

Works in Health Care (%) 15.42 14 14.68 0.2009 0.904

History of Cancer (%)
     Breast 3.11 4.74 3.5 1.0141 0.602
     Ovarian 0.39 0.4 0 1.0107 0.603

Frank Score, mean (SD) 0.047 (0.036) 0.043 (0.03) 0.046 (0.03) 0.388 0.8236

Interested in Testing at Baseline (%) 6.4664 0.167
     No 12.06 16.21 10.51 -- --
     Yes 64.2 55.34 61.48 -- --
     Don’t Know 23.74 28.46 28.02 -- --
*

f-value