Understanding low chemoprevention uptake by women at high risk of breast cancer: findings from a qualitative inductive study of women’s risk-reduction experiences

Table 4 Awareness of chemoprevention and personal characteristics

	Aware of chemoprevention	Unaware of chemoprevention	Total^a
Reports nuanced information gathering^b	13 (62%)	8 (38%)	21 (45%)
Does not report nuanced information gathering^b	8 (31%)	18 (69%)	26 (55%)
Low cancer worry^b	6 (25%)	18 (75%)	24 (51%)
Moderate or high cancer worry^b	15 (65%)	8 (35%)	23 (49%)

All categories coded inductively from qualitative data. For example, a woman was coded as “reports nuanced information gathering” if she discussed any of these strategies during her interview: trying to be informed enough to ask the right questions, trying to validate information, being aware of information-seeking gaps, having encountered challenges to gathering needed information
^aNumbers in this column are row totals. Percentages are out of the sample of 47 participants analyzed in this paper
^bPercentages on this row refer to the percent of the row total that falls in this column (e.g. 25% of those with low cancer worry are aware of chemoprevention)

ISSN: 1472-6874