Erratum: Skin Cancer Concerns and Genetic Risk Information-Seeking in Primary Care

<i>Background:</i> Genomic testing for common genetic variants associated with skin cancer risk could enable personalized risk feedback to motivate skin cancer screening and sun protection. <i>Methods:</i> In a cross-sectional study, we investigated whether skin cancer cognitions and behavioral factors, sociodemographics, family factors, and health information-seeking were related to perceived importance of learning about how (a) genes and (b) health habits affect personal health risks using classification and regression trees (CART). <i>Results:</i> The sample (n = 1,772) was collected in a large health maintenance organization as part of the Multiplex Initiative, ranged in age from 25–40, was 53% female, 41% Caucasian, and 59% African-American. Most reported that they placed somewhat to very high importance on learning about how genes (79%) and health habits (88%) affect their health risks. Social influence actors were associated with information-seeking about genes and health habits. Awareness of family history was associated with importance of health habit, but not genetic, information-seeking. <i>Conclusions:</i> The investment of family and friends in health promotion may be a primary motivator for prioritizing information-seeking about how genes and health habits affect personal health risks and may contribute to the personal value, or personal utility, of risk information. Individuals who seek such risk information may be receptive to interventions aimed to maximize the social implications of healthy lifestyle change to reduce their health risks.

**背景**：针对与皮肤癌风险相关的常见遗传变异开展基因组检测，可提供个性化的风险反馈，从而推动皮肤癌筛查与防晒防护行为。
**方法**：本研究为横断面研究，采用分类与回归树（Classification and Regression Trees, CART）模型，探讨皮肤癌认知与行为因素、社会人口统计学特征、家庭因素以及健康信息寻求行为，是否与个体对以下两类知识学习的感知重要性相关：(a) 基因及(b) 健康习惯对个人健康风险的影响。
**结果**：本研究的样本（n=1772）源自某大型健康维护组织，作为“多重倡议（Multiplex Initiative）”的一部分开展招募，受试者年龄介于25至40岁之间，女性占比53%，白人占比41%，非裔美国人占比59%。多数受试者表示，其对学习基因（79%）及健康习惯（88%）如何影响自身健康风险的重视程度处于中等至极高水平。社会影响因素与基因及健康习惯相关的信息寻求行为存在显著关联。知晓家族病史的受试者，其对健康习惯相关信息寻求的重视程度更高，但与基因相关信息寻求的重视程度无显著关联。
**结论**：亲友在健康促进方面的投入，可能是推动个体优先寻求基因及健康习惯如何影响个人健康风险相关信息的核心动因，也可能提升风险信息的个人价值或个人效用。主动寻求此类风险信息的个体，或可接受旨在强化健康生活方式变革的社会影响、以降低自身健康风险的干预措施。