While 65% preferred being notified by a provider, participants acknowledge that this may be impractical; thus, they wanted to be notified by someone knowledgeable enough to answer questions.
However, this happened only occasionally, because patients often indicated that they preferred to notify their sex partner(s) themselves.
The number of kidnaps is unclear, as victims' families often prefer not to notify the authorities and to negotiate directly with the kidnappers, but one kidnap-victims' support group estimated that there were more than 100 cases in the Port-au-Prince area during November alone.
Many also prefer to over-notify the operators to avoid "missing" a critical event.
Respondents were given four methods by which a negative diagnosis could be communicated to them and asked to pick which method they would prefer to be notified by, and why.
Participants preferred to be notified in time when consultations were going to take place, but they reported different reasons for this preference.
This may suggest that while residents want to help their peers, they prefer to do so in ways that do don't involve notifying external guarding bodies.
The industry would prefer the kind of registry in place in several states, which allows people to put their names on a list and be notified of pesticide applications, said Gene Harrington, a spokesman for the National Pest Management Association.
They were comfortable having someone else notify them, but preferred that this person be knowledgeable enough to answer questions.
Many patients (22.4%) preferred instead that researchers should notify their physician while most of the patients (67.3%) preferred that researchers should inform both them and their doctor (χ = 102.327, df = 3, p < 0.001).
