Raising awareness of carrier testing for hereditary haemoglobinopathies in high-risk ethnic groups in the Netherlands: a pilot study among the general public and primary care providers

Table 1 Attendance and questionnaire response at public educational sessions

	Language at session (besides Dutch)
	Papiamentu	Sranan Tongo	English	Turkish	Moroccan Arabic	Total
No. of attendees	23	125	30	40	56	274
Self-reported ethnicity of respondents*
Antillian	19					19
Surinamese		21		1		22
African			3			3
Turkish			1	6		7
Moroccan**			1	2	10	13
Dutch		1		1	2	4
unknown	1	3	2	5	1	12
No. of questionnaires completed*	20	25	7	15	13	80

*At least one questionnaire filled in i.e. before and/or after.
**One person born in Algeria with both parents born in Morocco was classified under Moroccan ethnicity.

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