Table 2.

Types of participants, including patients and health professionals (HP), country/continent of research origin and qualitative/quantitative research methods in selected studies

References in ascending order according to year of publication—author [ref.]	Participants				Country/continent				Methods
	Cancer patients and at-risk women	Cancer patients only	Genetics HPs	Oncology HPs	Europe/Scandinavia	UK	Australia	North America	Qual.	Quant.
Metcalfe et al. [16]	X							X		X
Randall et al. [23]		X					X			X
Hallowell et al. [35]		X				X			X
Lobb et al. [21]a	X		X				X			X
Butow and Lobb [20]a	X		X				X			X
Lobb et al. [15]a	X		X				X			X
van Dijk et al. [36]	X				X					X
van Roosmalen et al. [39]	X				X					X
Mancini et al. [31]		X			X					X
Pieterse et al. [22]	X		X		X					X
Maheu and Thorne [34]		X						X	X
Vadaparampil et al. [38]		X						X	X
Vos et al. [37]		X			X				X
Pieterse et al. [40]	X		X		X					X
Vadaparampil et al. [42]		X						X		X
Vos et al. [24]b		X			X					X
Christie et al. [27]		X						X		X
Meiser et al. [18]		X					X		X
Vos et al. [25]b		X			X					X
Vos et al. [26]b		X			X					X
Gleeson et al. [17]		X					X		X
Sie et al. [43]		X			X					X
Jacobs et al. [33]	X					X				X
Scherr et al. [29]		X						X		X
Quinn et al. [32]		X					X			X
Augestad et al. [41]		X			X				X
Benusiglio et al. [30]		X			X					X
Bredart et al. [28]		X			X					X
Jacobs et al. [19]		X	X	X		X				X

^aPapers from the same Australian study

^bPapers from the same Netherlands study