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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Genet Couns. 2015 Nov 18;25(3):572–582. doi: 10.1007/s10897-015-9911-z

Table 4.

Description of Participants whose Altruistic Motivations to Test Changed over the Study Time Period*

T1 Personal,
T2 Personal,
T3 Personal		 T1 Personal,
T2 Mutual,
T3 Personal		 T1 Mutual,
T2 Mutual,
T3 Mutual		 T1 Mutual,
T2 Mutual,
T3 Personal
 Total 18 (15.0%) 12 (10.0%) 6 (5.0%) 6 (5.0%)
Gender
 Male 0 2 1 0
 Female 18 10 5 6
Genetic test result
 Positive 4 4 1 3
 Informative
 Negative		 2 0 0 1
 Uninformative
 Negative		 10 7 5 2
 Declined 2 1 0 0
Personal history
of cancer
 Yes 3 2 5 2
 No 15 10 1 4
Mean age in years
(SD)		 39.2 (10.8) 49.4 (13.3) 57.2 (8.9) 44.0 (12.3)
*

Reported for groups of participants with n ≥ 6. T1: Pre-Counseling; T2: Post-Counseling; T3:Post-Genetic Testing. SD: Standard deviation.