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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 23.
Published in final edited form as: AJOB Empir Bioeth. 2017 Jan 27;8(2):82–88. doi: 10.1080/23294515.2017.1287786

Table 1.

Participant socio-demographic and understanding characteristics

Characteristic - no. (%) All Participants n=202 Interview Participants n=49 p-value
Age (years), mean (SD) 55 (11.2) 56 (11.9) 0.885
   Age (years), range 19 – 85 26 – 85

Female gender 103 (51) 22 (45) 0.410

Race/Ethnicity
   Non-Hispanic white 176 (87) 41 (84) 0.819
   Other 26 (13) 8 (16)

Annual household income
   <$100,000 73 (36) 15 (31) 0.353
   ≥$100,000 129 (64) 34 (69)

Highest education level
   Did not graduate from college 38 (19) 8 (16) 0.600
   College graduate or higher 164 (81) 41 (84)

Genetic knowledge score, 11-items
   Number of correct items, mean (SD) 10 (1.2) 10 (1.2) 0.505
   Number of correct items, range 4 – 11 7 – 11

Informed consent understanding score, 22-items
   Number of correct items, mean (SD) 20 (2.1) 20 (1.6) 0.203
   Number of correct items, range 13 – 22 15 – 22