Effective Communication of Pathology Results to Requesting Practitioners and Consumers

Results from the pictorial prototype

Page last updated: 14 May 2013

A summary of the participants’ characteristics is shown in Table 3. As shown in the Table, approximately two thirds of the participants were female (69.3%) and the rest were male (30.7%). The age range of half of the participants was 18 to 30 years and the rest varied. More than third of the participants completed an undergraduate degree, 28% of them completed postgraduate degree and approximately quarter (24%) completed a high school certificate.

Variables
Categories
Frequency (Percentage)
SexMale23 (30.7%)
Female52 (69.3%)
Age Range18-2418 (24%)
25-3020 (26.7%)
31-357 (9.3%)
36-405 (6.7%)
41-458 (10.7%)
46-502 (2.7%)
51-555 (6.7%)
56-606 (8%)
61 or older4 (5.3%)
Education LevelHigh School18 (24%)
Diploma10 (13.3%)
Undergraduate26 (34.7%)
Postgraduate21(28%)