Table 3.

Factor loadings after varimax rotating for women preferences in obstetrician and gynecologist selection

Items	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 4	Factor 5	Factor 6
Providing a safe and private place during examination	0.77
Secrecy and confidentiality of examination	0.71
Honesty	0.66
Providing a safe and private place during consultation	0.66
Paying attention to the patient and listening to them eagerly	0.64
Giving appropriate solutions to patient problems (training)	0.63
Verbal communicational skill	0.59
Staff behavior	0.56
Access to the physician out of hour in emergency cases	0.49
Waiting times	0.43
Easy access to information about physician office hours		0.71
Making appointments easily		0.65
Getting an appointment as soon as possible		0.59
Variety of appointment procedures such as telephone, website and walk-in		0.56
Convenience access to the office for example traffic, parking options, and public transportation availability		0.53
Proximity of office to home		0.45
Waiting room capacity and welcoming			0.63
Having lactating room			0.60
Office amenities such as elevator, restrooms, TV and frig			0.60
Having spouse’s waiting room			0.54
Office condition and facilities for instance cleanliness and proper ventilating			0.53
Office diagnostic equipment such as ultrasound and sonography devices				0.74
Special practices offered by OB-GYN (such as ultrasound, laparoscopy, pap smear test and hysteroscopy; fellowships)				0.62
Proximity of the office to para-clinical services				0.60
Accessibility of information about para-clinical services				0.59
Having insurance coverage					0.83
Support supplementary insurance					0.83
Surgery and delivery cost					0.63
Experience in role						0.62
Reputation						0.60
Recommendation from friends and family						0.56
Former patient satisfaction						0.55
Recommendation from other doctors/colleagues						0.44