Table 9.

Coding of Study 2 open-ended responses.

Open-ended question code category	Number of responses
1. Sadness/sympathy/empathy	41
2. Feel guilty (eg, to be alive and well when others are not)	0
3. Feel worried/concerned for oneself	5
4. Informative	22
5. Well-written	15
6. Motivates behavior (eg, will make an appointment, do a skin check)	8
7. Makes you appreciate life more	1
8. Thought of someone with cancer	18
9. Did not want to read/would not read	3
10. No new information/heard it all before	18