Fig. 3

Schedule of enrolment, interventions and assessments. In the control phase participants make an appointment in the Departments of Human Genetics Hannover or Dresden after enrolment. They receive a questionnaire about socio demographic data and their expectations of the genetic counseling. One week after genetic counseling participants receive the GCSS and VSQ questionnaires. Participants with a suspicion of TRS get diagnostic testing. Test results are communicated by Geneticists. Afterwards participants are asked to fill out the questionnaires GCSS, VSQ and MICRA. If participants have been enrolled but no consultation has been recorded, the patient is asked about the non-utilization by a follow-up telephone call (t3). In the invention phase telemedical genetic counseling takes place. Oncologists communicate the test results of genetic testing and a second telemedical genetic counseling takes place