Table 1.
Scale items—Mothers Autonomy in Decision Making (MADM)1.
Table 2.
Dissatisfaction with decision-making experience, by care provider type.
Table 3.
Cronbach alphas for MADM scale, full sample and by care provider type.
Table 4.
Corrected item to total correlations and factor loadings of MADM items.
Fig 1.
Scree plots for Samples 1, 2, and 3.
When examining construct validity indicators separately for physician and midwifery consumers in Sample 1, we found that factor loadings for women who were cared for by family physicians ranged from 0.73–0.88 (n = 264), 0.80–0.92 for women under the care of obstetricians (n = 150) and 0.64–0.91 for midwives (n = 927). For all care provider groups the scree plots showed one factor with an Eigenvalue above 5; all other Eigenvalues fell clearly below 1 (see Fig 2).
Fig 2.
Scree plots by provider type (Sample 1).
Table 5.
MADM median scale scores, full sample and stratified by care provider.
Fig 3.
Box plot: MADM scores by care provider type (Sample 1 = 1344).
Median and interquartile range of MADM scores by care provider group for pregnancy 1 (n = 1344). The horizontal line inside each box represents the median score for each provider group, and the upper and lower boundaries of each box represent the upper and lower quartiles. The vertical lines represent the range of scores, excluding outliers, which are represented by open circles and asterisks.
Table 6.
MADM median scale scores, by average length of prenatal appointments.
Fig 4.
Average prenatal appointment lengths, by care provider type (n = 1723).