Table 2.
Percentage of positive and negative responses regarding computerized health databases.
| Question | CF | SCD | Diabetes | HIV | BC Affected | BC At Risk | CC Affected | CC At Risk | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Do you think a computerized health database is a good idea or a bad idea? (N = 587) | |||||||||
| Good idea | 43.0 | 32.3 | 42.6 | 25.3 | 32.0 | 24.4 | 36.2 | 38.0 | 34.9 |
| Bad idea | 53.0 | 57.6 | 54.5 | 69.5 | 64.0 | 64.4 | 59.6 | 54.0 | 59.1 |
| Refused | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.17 |
| Don't know | 4.00 | 10.1 | 2.97 | 5.26 | 4.00 | 11.1 | 4.26 | 6.00 | 5.79 |
| Do you think a secure health database is a good idea or a bad idea? (N = 539) | |||||||||
| Good idea | 79.4 | 70.3 | 64.4 | 71.3 | 63.8 | 72.7 | 83.3 | 67.4 | 71.4 |
| Bad idea | 20.7 | 26.4 | 31.1 | 24.1 | 31.9 | 20.5 | 16.7 | 27.0 | 25.1 |
| Refused | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.11 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.19 |
| Don't know | 0.00 | 3.30 | 3.33 | 4.60 | 4.26 | 6.82 | 0.00 | 6.52 | 3.34 |
| *Do you think an anonymous health database is a good idea or a bad idea? (N = 495) | |||||||||
| Good idea | 85.2 | 73.4 | 91.8 | 86.4 | 87.2 | 95.6 | 90.9 | 85.4 | 85.9 |
| Bad idea | 13.6 | 19.2 | 8.24 | 13.6 | 10.6 | 2.22 | 9.09 | 10.4 | 11.7 |
| Refused | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.20 |
| Don't know | 1.14 | 7.45 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.22 | 0.00 | 4.17 | 2.22 |
Note that small proportions of seemingly inconsistent answers to this series of questions were detected. Of those who said a computerized database is a good idea (205 respondents), nine (4.39%) said that a secure database is a bad idea and eleven (5.37%) said that an anonymous database is a bad idea. Of those who said that a secure database is a good idea (385 respondents), twenty (5.19%) said that an anonymous database is a bad idea. Finally, of those who said that computerized and secure databases are both good ideas (145 respondents), six (4.14%) said that an anonymous database is a bad idea.
*
Significant at p < 0.05 (overall χ2).