Table IV.
Predictors for interest in any prenatal screening for trisomy (N=3164)
| Demographic or experiential variable | Odds ratio | Wald χ2 statistic | p-value* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | N.S. | ||
| Age | N.S. | ||
| Ethnicity | |||
| Hispanic or Latino | N.S. | ||
| Race | |||
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 0.470 | 8.836 | 0.003 |
| Asian | N.S. | ||
| Black or African-American | N.S. | ||
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | N.S. | ||
| White | N.S. | ||
| Educational attainment | 1.137 | 17.847 | <0.001† |
| Household income | 1.179 | 29.422 | <0.001 |
| Health insurance status | 1.477 | 13.309 | <0.001† |
| Religion | |||
| Catholic | N.S. | ||
| Evangelical Protestant | 0.480 | 35.527 | <0.001 |
| Other Protestant | N.S. | ||
| Mormon | N.S. | ||
| Jewish | 3.260 | 18.090 | <0.001 |
| Buddhist | N.S. | ||
| Muslim | N.S. | ||
| Unaffiliated | 1.263 | 5.724 | 0.017 |
| Religiosity | 0.793 | 30.812 | <0.001† |
| Experience as a parent | N.S. | ||
| Experience with physical disability | 1.274 | 7.445 | 0.006† |
| Experience with mental illness or disability | N.S. | ||
| Experience with doctor-ordered genetic test | 1.932 | 17.143 | <0.001† |
| Experience with purchased genetic test | 2.031 | 13.498 | <0.001† |
| Consideration of pregnancy termination | 8.270 | 432.907 | <0.001 |
*
N.S.=not significant. All p-values are reported using logistic regressional analysis adjusting for whether respondents were queried regarding trisomy 13 and 18 or trisomy 21.
†
This predictive variable does not remain significant in a multivariate logistic regression of all individually significant predictors of interest.