Table 3. Percent agreement by professional role in the healthcare system for selected items.
| Response Options | Professional Role | Statistics | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physicians/ Medical Students | Nurses | Other Role | No Role | ||
| I want to know about any risk I have for a genetic disorder that is found incidentally. | |||||
| yes | 37% | 84% | 61% | 70% |
χ2 (9, N = 463) = 25.7, p = < .01) |
| no | 28% | 5% | 16% | 12% | |
| Only, if prevention possibilities are available | 24% | 11% | 14% | 14% | |
| I do not know | 11% | 0% | 9% | 4% | |
| I want to know about any disease I have that is found incidentally. | |||||
| yes | 65% | 81% | 81% | 85% |
χ2 (9, N = 462) = 17.0, p < .05) |
| no | 4% | 0% | 4% | 3% | |
| Only, if prevention possibilities are available | 24% | 14% | 10% | 11% | |
| I do not know | 7% | 5% | 5% | 1% | |
| There is a simple and reasonably priced option to be tested for your risk for more than 250 genetic disorders. Would you get yourself tested? | |||||
| yes | 32% | 40% | 45% | 52% |
χ2 (6, N = 464) = 15.5, p < .05) |
| no | 60% | 40% | 47% | 34% | |
| I do not know | 9% | 20% | 8% | 13% | |
| Would you have yourself genetically tested so you can better assess the risk that (future) children will develop a serious disease? | |||||
| yes | 50% | 55% | 50% | 57% |
χ2 (6, N = 459) = 16.0, p < .01) |
| no | 48% | 20% | 44% | 36% | |
| I do not know | 2% | 25% | 5% | 7% | |
| My physician should know all my genetic findings and decide on the basis of his professional knowledge which he tells me about and which he doesn’t tell me about. | |||||
| yes | 20% | 47% | 26% | 40% |
χ2 (6, N = 461) = 13.2, p < .05) |
| no | 78% | 53% | 70% | 57% | |
| I do not know | 2% | 0% | 4% | 4% | |
Note. For reasons of space, the wording of the questions displayed in this table is abbreviated. Please see S1 File for the exact question wording in the original questionnaire. Percentages might not add up to 100% due to rounding errors. All reported p-values are Bonferroni corrected.