Table 4.

Univariate associations of demographic and psychological measures with strong interest in genomic SNP testing

Predictor	Total N	Strongly agree N (%)	p
Group			<0.001
PRAP	40	30 (75.0)
Urology,	40	147 (35.0)
Demographic
Age			0.10
40-64	48	30 (62.5)
65+	32	14 (43.8)
Race			0.59
African American	27	16 (59.3)
White	53	28 (52.8)
Marital Status			0.32
Married	65	34 (52.3)
Other	15	10 (66.7)
Education			0.54
High school or less	25	16 (64.0)
Some college	15	8 (53.3)
College or more	40	20 (50.0)
Internet access			0.25
Yes	77	41 (53.2)
No	3	3 (100.0)
FDRs with prostate cancer			0.008
0	37	18 (48.6)
1	22	8 (36.4)
2+	21	18 (85.7)
Personal history of prostate cancer			0.001
No	55	37 (67.3)
Yes	25	7 (28.0)
Psychological measures
Perceived risk of prostate cancer			0.039
Lower	11	3 (27.3)
Same	22	12 (54.5)
A little higher	24	11 (45.8)
Much higher	23	18 (78.3)
Reasons for wanting SNP testing			0.001
0-3 reasons marked	35	12 (34.3)
4-7 reasons marked	45	32 (71.1)
Reasons for not wanting SNP testing			0.003
None checked	60	39 (65.0)
At least 1 checked	20	5 (25.0)
Health literacy
Help reading materials			0.007
“None of the time”	27	9 (33.3)
Not “none of the time”	53	35 (66.0)
Confidence in filling out forms			0.78
“Extremely confident”	59	33 (55.9)
Not “extremely confident”	21	11 (52.4)
Problems with understanding information			0.34
“None of the time”	12	5 (41.7)
Not “none of the time”	67	38 (56.7)
Numeracy skill			0.22
Low numeracy (0 or 1 item correct)	16	11 (68.8)
High numeracy (2 or 3 items correct)	64	33 (51.6)
Knowledge score
General genetics knowledge items			0.21
1-4 correct	10	4 (40.0)
5-6	42	27 (64.3)
7-8	28	13 (46.4)
Genomic SNP test knowledge items			0.65
0 correct	37	19 (51.4)
1-3	26	14 (53.8)
4-6	17	11 (64.7)

Bold: Results significant (p < 0.05).