Psychological measures of adults and children with negative and positive test results: mean (SD) and frequency
| Adults | Children | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative (n=125) | Positive (n=23) | Negative (n=29) | Positive (n=31) | ||||
| (1) Psychological resources | |||||||
| Dispositional optimism (0–32) | 21.9 (5.8) | 21.3 (6.9) | 22.2 (6.6) | 21.4 (6.1) | |||
| Self-esteem (10–40) | 33.1 (5.2) | 32.7 (5.5) | 30.4 (5.5) | 32.4 (4.8) | |||
| (2) Psychological responses | |||||||
| Anxiety (20–80) | 33.4 (11.1) | 43.0 (14.0)2-165 | 29.2 (9.1) | 33.9 (9.1)2-151 | |||
| Children's raw score (20–60) | 26.1 (5.9) | 29.3 (6.1) | |||||
| Anxiety “caseness” (adult/child cut off) | |||||||
| >=42/ >=35 | 25 (20%) | 10 (43%)2-160 | 1 (3%) | 6 (19%)2-151 | |||
| <42/ <35 | 95 (77%) | 11 (48%) | 25 (86%) | 23 (74%) | |||
| Missing | 5 (4%) | 2 (9%) | 3 (10%) | 2 (6%) | |||
| Depression (0–21) | 1.4 (1.8) | 1.9 (2.6) | 0.7 (1.0) | 1.6 (2.1)2-151 | |||
| Situational distress (0–75) | 14.5 (15.3) | 19.7 (16.4) | 13.0 (14.2) | 15.4 (12.5) | |||
| Behaviour scale (0–62) | — | — | 9.5 (8.2) | 7.7 (3.6) | |||
| Perceived threat of test result (11–55) | 17.6 (6.2) | 35.8 (5.3)2-165 | 16.4 (5.7) | 32.6 (8.9)2-165 | |||
| (3) Perception of illness | |||||||
| Perceived chance (0–100) | 22.9 (30.7) | 91.0 (12.4)2-165 | 3.5 (7.0) | 80.3 (22.6)2-165 | |||
| Worry about chance (0–6) | 0.9 (1.4) | 3.6 (1.9)2-165 | 0.7 (1.2) | 3.1 (2.1)2-165 | |||
| Confident about chance estimate (0–6) | 4.9 (1.5) | 5.5 (1.0)2-150 | 5.3 (1.3) | 5.2 (1.4) | |||
| Seriousness of polyposis (0–6) | 5.4 (0.9) | 4.8 (1.4)2-150 | 5.4 (0.9) | 4.8 (1.6) | |||
| How bad would feel (0–6) | 4.7 (1.4) | 3.8 (1.6)2-160 | 4.0 (2.2) | 4.1 (1.8) | |||