Table 4 Univariate associations of demographic and psychological measures with strong interest in genomic SNP testing

Group

<0.001

  PRAP

40

30 (75.0)

  Urology,

40

147 (35.0)

Demographic

Age

0.10

  40-64

48

30 (62.5)

  65+

32

14 (43.8)

Race

0.59

  African American

27

16 (59.3)

  White

53

28 (52.8)

Marital Status

0.32

  Married

65

34 (52.3)

  Other

15

10 (66.7)

Education

0.54

  High school or less

25

16 (64.0)

  Some college

15

8 (53.3)

  College or more

40

20 (50.0)

Internet access

0.25

  Yes

77

41 (53.2)

  No

3

3 (100.0)

FDRs with prostate cancer

0.008

  0

37

18 (48.6)

  1

22

8 (36.4)

  2+

21

18 (85.7)

Personal history of prostate cancer

0.001

  No

55

37 (67.3)

  Yes

25

7 (28.0)

Psychological measures

Perceived risk of prostate cancer

0.039

  Lower

11

3 (27.3)

  Same

22

12 (54.5)

  A little higher

24

11 (45.8)

  Much higher

23

18 (78.3)

Reasons for wanting SNP testing

0.001

  0-3 reasons marked

35

12 (34.3)

  4-7 reasons marked

45

32 (71.1)

Reasons for not wanting SNP testing

0.003

  None checked

60

39 (65.0)

  At least 1 checked

20

5 (25.0)

Health literacy

  Help reading materials

0.007

   “None of the time”

27

9 (33.3)

   Not “none of the time”

53

35 (66.0)

  Confidence in filling out forms

0.78

   “Extremely confident”

59

33 (55.9)

   Not “extremely confident”

21

11 (52.4)

  Problems with understanding information

0.34

   “None of the time”

12

5 (41.7)

   Not “none of the time”

67

38 (56.7)

Numeracy skill

0.22

  Low numeracy (0 or 1 item correct)

16

11 (68.8)

  High numeracy (2 or 3 items correct)

64

33 (51.6)

Knowledge score

  General genetics knowledge items

0.21

   1-4 correct

10

4 (40.0)

   5-6

42

27 (64.3)

   7-8

28

13 (46.4)

  Genomic SNP test knowledge items

0.65

   0 correct

37

19 (51.4)

   1-3

26

14 (53.8)

   4-6

17

11 (64.7)