Attitudes towards genomic integration
| Item | Total (N=2118) | Cancer hospital nurses (N=1166) | General hospital nurses (N=952) | χ2 | P value |
| Become more educated in genetics and genomics of common diseases for nurses | 14.48 | 0.002 | |||
| Not at all important/not very important | 44 (2.1) | 18 (1.5) | 26 (2.7) | ||
| Neutral/not sure/don’t know | 521 (24.6) | 267 (22.9) | 254 (26.7) | ||
| Somewhat important | 700 (33.1) | 373 (32.0) | 327 (34.3) | ||
| Very important | 853 (40.3) | 508 (43.6) | 345 (36.2) | ||
| Advantages | |||||
| Better treatment decisions | 1968 (92.9) | 1096 (94.0) | 872 (91.6) | 4.59 | 0.032 |
| Improved services to the patients | 1860 (87.8) | 1027 (88.1) | 833 (87.5) | 0.16 | 0.685 |
| Better adherence to clinical recommendations among patients | 1965 (92.8) | 1097 (94.1) | 868 (91.2) | 6.60 | 0.010 |
| Disadvantages | |||||
| Would take too much time working and studying | 1478 (69.8) | 810 (69.5) | 668 (70.2) | 0.12 | 0.727 |
| Can’t be reimbursed/cost too much | 1452 (68.6) | 781 (67.0) | 671 (70.5) | 2.98 | 0.084 |
| Need to ‘re-tool’ professionally | 1495 (70.6) | 803 (68.9) | 692 (72.7) | 3.69 | 0.055 |
| Increase patient anxiety about risk | 1106 (52.2) | 602 (51.6) | 504 (52.9) | 0.36 | 0.548 |
| Would increase insurance discrimination | 1119 (52.8) | 595 (51.0) | 524 (55.0) | 3.39 | 0.066 |
Data in the table are N (%).