Table 3.

Sources of information reported by counselors. (N = 28)

Source	Number of responses	Counselors comments
Discussions with other genetic counseling colleagues	11	Rely heavily on discussions that take place in the counseling community (ex. through CAGC listserv)…
Patient experiences	10	Patients’ experience with insurance
Professional association conferences/presentations	7	Information from presentations by insurance brokers at recent genetic counseling conferences.
Personal experiences	5	I have personal experience and anecdotal evidence.
Information during training program	5	… lectures from an underwriter during my training
Published reports/literature	4	Canadian genetics and life insurance task force report
No specific resources	3	I don’t have any sources of information that I rely on to inform counselees about genetics and access to personal insurance.
Websites	1	Websites (ex Canadian coalition for genetic fairness)