Table 2. Motivations and concerns: themes emerging from the qualitative interviews.

Themes
Motivations
1. To learn personal disease risk or health-related information (30)
To avoid or reduce their risk of disease (23)
Via lifestyle, diet and/or exercise (10)
Via medical intervention (4)
Prepare or plan for the future (9)
Emotionally prepare (2)
Financially plan (3)
Stored personal information could be of potential value to them in the future (4)
For medication prescribing purposes (ie, pharmacogenomics) (3)
For diagnostic purposes (1)
As the science advances (4)
Because of a known family history of disease (12)
Because of a known or suspected personal history of disease (5)
Because of a lack of information about family history (3)
2. Curiosity (23)
General curiosity (14)
Interested in or curious about the science (11)
The field of genetics/genomics (8)
Science (2)
Research (1)
Curiosity about their genes (7)
3. To contribute to research (15)
Altruistic desire to help others and the field of medicine (3)
To contribute to the advancement of science (5)
4. Interested in their ancestry (13)
5. To provide disease risk information for their children and other family members (11)
For their existing children (7)
For their family members generally (3)
For their future potential children and family planning (3)
6. Self-exploration (7)
7. Novel opportunity (3)
8. Useful professionally (1)
Concerns
1. Concern about adverse psychological impact of potential results (9)
Concern about results regarding untreatable diseases/conditions (6)
Non-specific (2)
Alzheimer's disease (3)
Huntington's disease (1)
Concern about breast cancer (BRCA1/2) (1)
Fear of the unknown (3)
2. Concern about implications of potential results for children (4)
Implications for existing children (3)
Implications for future reproductive decision making (1)
3. Concern about loss of privacy (3)
4. Not concerned (19)

Numbers in brackets denote the numbers of participants who mentioned the theme.