Loading pattern for Evaluation variables (bolded values point to variables relevant for component meaning, Italics to borderline items).

<p><b>Variables codes</b>: <b>AVAL</b> = ‘Did your physician ever answered to phone calls?’; <b>BVAL</b>: ‘During pregnancy did you feel the need of more visits/exams?’; <b>CVAL</b> = ‘Did you receive all the necessary information during pregnancy/birth/post-birth periods?’; <b>DVAL</b> = ‘Was ever it possible to express your opinion during visits?’; <b>FVAL</b> = ‘Which is your evaluation of the technical skills of gynecologist?’; <b>GVAL</b> = ‘Which is your opinion of the patience demonstrated by your gynecologist?’; <b>HVAL</b>: ‘Which is your opinion about the clarity of the information given by gynecologist?’; <b>IVAL</b>: ‘Which is your opinion about the tact demonstrated by gynecologist in the relationships?’; <b>JVAL</b> ‘Which is your opinion about the professional ethics of your gynecologist?’; <b>KVAL</b>: ‘During your relationships with doctors did you ever felt considered/understood?’; <b>LVAL</b>: ‘Did the physician ever made all that it was possible to meet your needs?’; <b>MVAL</b> ‘Give a global score to your relationship with gynecologist’; <b>NVAL</b> ‘Did the physician made you to participate in the different choices?’; <b>OVAL</b>: ‘‘At the end of the birth, post-birth period how much your expectations were met?’; <b>PVAL, QVAL, RVAL</b>, are the possible answers to the question ‘Which of the virtues of your gynecologist did you appreciate most?’ correspondent to technical skills, patience, cheerfulness respectively; <b>SVAL</b>: ‘Did the midwife ever made all that it was possible to meet your needs?’; <b>TVAL</b> ‘Did you feel sometimes inappropriate in your questions and/or judged for your choices? (physician)’; <b>UVAL</b> ‘When arrived at the hospital had you to wait a long (<i>low values</i>) or short (<i>high values</i>) time?’; <b>VVAL</b>: ‘Did you think healthcare professionals put effort into establishing a positive human relationship with you?’; <b>WVAL</b>: ‘The relational environment you found among healthcare professionals did make you to feel safe?; <b>XVAL</b> ‘At admittance time did you feel yourself embraced?’; <b>YVAL</b>: ‘During your relationships with midwife did you ever felt considered/understood as well as supported in your decisions?’; <b>ZVAL:</b> ‘‘Did you feel sometimes inappropriate in your questions and/or judged for your choices? (midwife)’; <b>A2VAL</b> ‘Did you feel the need of more assistance during the first hours after delivery?’; <b>B2VAL</b>: ‘Did you judge as sufficient the information and the received assistance after you went back home?’; <b>C2VAL</b> ‘Did you receive a psychological support from health care professionals?.</p><p>Loading pattern for Evaluation variables (bolded values point to variables relevant for component meaning, Italics to borderline items).</p

Loading pattern for Opinion variables (bolded values point to variables relevant for component meaning, Italics to borderline items).

<p><b>Variable codes</b>: <b>AOP</b> = How much did you need physician during pregnancy?; <b>BOP</b> = How much did you need midwife during pregnancy?; <b>COP</b> = How much did you think the physician gender is important?; <b>DOP</b> = Did you prefer a male or female doctor? (1 = Male, 0 = Female); <b>NOP</b> = ‘How should be the perfect doctor/patient relationships? (High values: Mostly based on human relationships; Low Values: Mostly based on technical proficiency; Intermediate Values: Balance between human and technical); <b>LOP</b> = ‘How should be the perfect midwife/patient relationships? (High values: Mostly based on human relationships; Low Values: Mostly based on technical proficiency; Intermediate Values: Balance between human and technical); <b>FOP</b> = Are you used to verify the doctor or midwife suggestions on Internet?; <b>HOP</b> = Do you think midwife alone is sufficient for care?; <b>IOP</b> = How much dialogue is important in the patient/doctor(midwife) relation?; <b>GOP</b> = How much privacy is important in the relation with healthcare professionals?; <b>MOP</b>: How much consideration is important in the relationships with healthcare professionals?; <b>POP</b>: How much human virtues of the physician are important?; <b>QOP</b>: How much human virtues of the patient are important?.</p><p>Loading pattern for Opinion variables (bolded values point to variables relevant for component meaning, Italics to borderline items).</p

Pearson correlations between OP and EVAL components (bolded values correspond to statistically significant correlations at p < 0.05).

<p>Pearson correlations between OP and EVAL components (bolded values correspond to statistically significant correlations at p < 0.05).</p