Table 2.

Attitudes Towards Breast Cancer Genetic Testing Ethnic Group (Group Median Scores and Significance)

	African American (N=9)	Appalachian (N=10)	Asian American (N=10)	Latina (N=10)	Native American (N=10)	p-value*
Reasons FOR breast cancer genetic testing
Learn about breast cancer risk	3	3	4	4	3	0.083
Learn about children’s risk	3	3	4	4	3	0.499
Provide information for family	3.5	3	2	4	3	0.315
Decide about hormone replacement	4	2	1.5	4	2	0.191
Make decisions about surgery	3	2	3	4	2.5	0.194
Know if I need cancer screening more often	3.5	3	3	4	3	0.276
Plan for the future	4	3	2	3	3	0.384
Make decisions about having kids	2	1	2	4	2	0.129
Follow my doctor’s recommendation	3	3	2	4	3	0.022
Follow family’s recommendation	2.5	2	2	4	3	0.393
Reasons AGAINST breast cancer genetic testing
Concerned about effect on family	2	2.5	1	1	1.5	0.044
Do not trust modern medicine	1	1	1	1	2	0.014
Nothing I could do to prevent cancer	2	1	1	1	1	0.115
Concerned could not handle it	1.5	1.5	1	1	1	0.349
Results might not be accurate	2	2	1	1	2	0.109
Worried about losing health insurance	2	1	3	1	2	0.124
Worried about losing life insurance	2	1	2	1	1	0.095
Worried about job discrimination	1	1	1.5	1	1	0.164
Worried about children’s health insurance	2	2	1	1	2	0.203
Test costs too much	3	3	2	1	2.5	0.041
Concerned about getting tested without permission	1.5	1	1.5	1	2	0.259
Concerned others will get results without permission	2	1	2.5	1	2.5	0.032
Don’t like to give blood for tests	1	1	1	1	1	0.247

Response options:1=Not at all important; 2=Somewhat important; 3=Very important, 4=Extremely important

^*Two-sided p-value from Kruskal Wallis H comparison of mean ranks