TABLE 5.

—Percentage of Women Endorsing Most Important Sources of Opinion About Amniocentesis Decision, by Recruitment Strategy: Mexican-Origin Women and Their Partners Recruited From Southern California Genetic Clinics, 1995–1997

	On the Spot(n = 17)	Co-Recruitment(n = 29)	Standard(n = 57)	Brokering(n = 42)
My own	5.9	27.6	50.9	71.4
Equal between partners	88.2	34.5	45.6	19.0
Relatives	. . .	27.6	3.5	9.5
Friends	5.9	3.4	. . .	. . .
Others	. . .	6.9	. . .	. . .

Note. See text for description of strategies. Women in the co-recruitment group reported significantly higher percentages of “other” opinions compared with the standard group (minimum pairwise comparison, t = 4.19, P < .001) and the on-the-spot group (minimum pairwise comparison, t = 2.22, P < .05) and showed a consistent, though not significant, trend with the brokering group (minimum pairwise comparison, t = 1.3, P < .20).