Table 3 Areas of research

From: Communication about genetic testing with breast and ovarian cancer patients: a scoping review

References in ascending order according to year of publication—author [ref.]

Information needs

Process and content

Cognitive and emotional impact

Experience

Timing of pre-test communication

Alternatives to face-to-face genetic counselling

Recall and risk perception

Understand and interpret

Anxiety and distress

Metcalfe et al. [16]

X

       

Randall et al. [23]

  

X

 

X

   

Hallowell et al. [35]

   

X

 

X

  

Lobb et al. [21]a

 

X

      

Butow and Lobb [20]a

 

X

      

Lobb et al. [15]a

X

X

      

van Dijk et al. [36]

   

X

X

   

van Roosmalen et al. [39]

    

X

   

Mancini et al. [31]

  

X

 

X

  

X

Pieterse et al. [22]

 

X

      

Maheu and Thorne [34]

   

X

 

X

  

Vadaparampil et al. [38]

   

X

  

X

 

Vos et al. [37]

   

X

 

X

  

Pieterse et al. [40]

    

X

   

Vadaparampil et al. [42]

      

X

 

Vos et al. [24]b

  

X

     

Christie et al. [27]

  

X

 

X

 

X

 

Meiser et al. [18]

X

     

X

 

Vos et al. [25]b

  

X

X

    

Vos et al. [26]b

  

X

     

Gleeson et al. [17]

X

     

X

 

Sie et al. [43]

      

X

X

Jacobs et al. [33]

  

X

     

Scherr et al. [29]

  

X

   

X

 

Quinn et al. [32]

  

X

 

X

 

X

X

Augestad et al. [41]

     

X

X

X

Benusiglio et al. [30]

  

X

 

X

 

X

X

Bredart et al. [28]

  

X

 

X

   

Jacobs et al. [19]

X

       
  1. aPapers from the same Australian study
  2. bPapers from the same Netherlands study