Pregnant women’s attitudes and decision-making regarding prenatal Down syndrome screening and diagnosis: scale development and validation

Table 2 Results of the EFA

Question No. /original item	Attitudes towards Down Syndrome & Screening tests	Important others’ Attitudes towards Down Syndrome	Influence of Important others on Decision Making	Influence of Social Media on Decision Making	Communality
1/A4	0.881	0.099	−0.011	0.004	0.786
2/A3	0.876	0.078	0.009	0.005	0.773
3/A5	0.866	−0.002	0.005	0.035	0.751
4/A8	0.856	0.005	0.004	0.027	0.734
5/A7	0.829	0.026	0.015	−0.020	0.688
6/A6	0.648	0.049	0.004	0.144	0.443
7/A53	0.098	0.916	0.048	0.073	0.857
8/A54	0.067	0.894	0.166	0.086	0.838
9/A24	0.010	0.031	0.914	0.195	0.875
10/A25	−0.025	0.014	0.904	0.185	0.852
11/A23	−0.011	0.063	0.769	0.330	0.705
12/A21	0.030	0.140	0.769	0.003	0.611
13/A44	0.003	0.062	0.699	0.373	0.631
14/A45	0.002	0.049	0.190	0.837	0.739
15/A46	0.026	0.026	0.223	0.746	0.608
16/A26	0.150	0.114	0.286	0.712	0.625
Eigenvalue	4.701	1.233	1.044	1.537
Items maintained	6	2	5	3
Variance explained	26.071	22.010	13.254	10.638
Cumulative variance explained	26.071	48.081	61.335	71.973
KMO		0.822
Bartlett’s test of sphericity (χ²)		χ² = 2816.198, p < .001

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