Table 2.

Clinician attitudes towards genetic testing

Attitude Item	n	% Agree	% Neutral	% Disagree	Mean Attitude Score*
Genetic testing should be offered to patients with ALS	66	80.30	12.12	7.58	2.67
Genetic testing should be offered to patients with ALS who have a family history of ALS	67	97.01	2.99	0.00	1.39
Genetic testing can provide useful information to patients with ALS	67	92.54	7.46	0.00	1.93
Genetic testing should be offered to family members of persons with ALS	67	37.31	29.85	32.84	1.93
Genetic testing should be offered to family members of persons with ALS who have a gene mutation	66	68.18	18.18	13.64	3.15
Genetic testing can provide useful information to family members of person with ALS	65	72.31	20.00	7.69	3.15
If I had ALS and were offered genetic testing, I would have testing	67	62.69	22.39	14.93	3.24
Genetic testing can help researchers/clinicians understand ALS	67	97.01	1.49	1.49	1.42
In the future, genetic testing may help researchers/clinicians	66	98.48	1.52	0.00	1.30
					Average:2.23

^*Attitude score was calculated for each respondent by assigning a numeric value to each Likert response, with a possible range of 0 to 10, with 0 being the most positive and 5 representing a neutral attitude.