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. 2017 Sep 7;22(3):343–354. doi: 10.1007/s10995-017-2364-2

Table 4.

Intentional participation of ethnicity and language groups after adequate information provision prenatal screening with CT and FAS

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
Total Information offer CT Counseling desired CT Counseling CT Intention to participate in CT
Yes n (%)g OR CI (95%)h Yes n (%)a, g OR CI (95%)h Yes n (%)b, g Yes n (%)c, g OR CI (95%)h
Ethnicityd, e
 Native/Western 3877 3606 (93) Ref 2761 (77) Ref 2653 (96) 879 (32) Ref
 Non-Western 889 756 (85) 1.05 (0.65–1.71) 571 (76) 0.70 (0.46–1.05) 538 (94) 64 (11) 1.61 (0.84–3.10)
Languagef
 Fluent 25,244 22,720 (90) Ref 16,997 (75) Ref 16,638 (98) 4977 (46) Ref
 Limited/absent 1723 1310 (76) 0.44 (0.33–0.58) § 1019 (78) 0.62 (0.49–0.79) 988 (97) 167 (27) 1.93 (1.29–2.88)
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
Total Information offer FAS Counseling desired FAS Counseling FAS Intention to participate in FAS
Yes n (%)g OR CI (95%)h Yes n (%)a, g OR CI (95%)h Yes n (%)b, g Yes n (%)c, g OR CI (95%)h
Ethnicityd, h
 Native/Western 3865 3749 (97) Ref 3674 (98) Ref 863 (23) 813 (94)
 Non-Western 902 866 (96) 1 (0.41–2.44) 857 (99) 0.71 (0.42–1.22) 158 (18) 141 (89) n.a
Languagef
 Fluent 25,058 23,555 (94) Ref 21,811 (93) Ref 15,766 (72) 14,015 (89) Ref
 Limited/absent 1748 1608 (92) 1.92 (1.24–2.99) 1540 (96) 1.41 (0.97–2.04) 1,021 (66) 921 (90) 2.26 (0.17–30)

CT combined test, FAS fetal anomaly scan, n.a. not applicable

Bold is significant: p < 0.01, p < 0.001

aPercentage based on the number of pregnant women that had an information offer about CT/FAS

bPercentage based on the number of pregnant women that desired counseling about CT/FAS

cPercentage based on number of pregnant women that was counseled about CT/FAS

dAdjusted for age, gravidity, parity, immigrant generation, urbanity and language proficiency

eThe ‘other’ ethnicity category, presented in different analyses in this article, is excluded from analyses due to uncertainty about Western and non-Western backgrounds because the country of birth of the parents of pregnant women is missing

fAdjusted for age, gravidity, parity, immigrant generation, urbanity and ethnicity

gChi2 testing

hLogistic regression analyses

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