Table Box 2.

 Accepting the test was ‘right’ because it helped others

Patients described having the test as the ‘right’ decision because it fulfilled obligations to other people.

Some saw it as fulfilling obligations to the hospital

In as much as everybody had been so helpful there, so really I needed to do my bit … Everybody at the hospital had done their part so, really, I thought that would be some contribution from myself. (P16/1)

Or as helping other patients

Well they’d find things out wouldn’t they, you know, different things, not only just for me, for the future, isn’t that the way they do it, like, they find things out so... because you know they can do tests and find out can’t they. Perhaps they could find something out from that that they didn’t know about, and it would help someone else. (P1)

Two patients described the decision as fulfilling obligations to family

Maybe because of my children, you know, cos I’ve got five children, and just maybe, just probably because of them, I don’t think it [choosing the test] was anything to do with myself, [I] think it was like more my husband and my children I was more worried about. You know, in case like anything did happen to me, they’d be left. (P17/1)