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Table 2 Respondents’ expertise/ experience and factor association

From: Extending life for people with a terminal illness: a moral right and an expensive death? Exploring societal perspectives

Q sort

Formal expertise/association

Experiential/ belief/personal

F1

F2

F3

EX044

Health services research/health policy

Patient family

0.81*

0.10

0.17

EX045

NHS support worker

Patient/Carer of cancer patient

0.79*

−0.19

0.03

EX037

General Practitioner

 

0.79*

−0.00

0.19

EX005

Outcomes researcher/pharmaceutical industry

 

0.75*

0.04

0.46

EX023

Health care law/bioethics/NHS

 

0.75*

0.02

0.42

METAGP2

  

0.74*

0.14

0.39

EX033

Health economist/health policy/government

 

0.70*

−0.20

0.42

EX054

Politician

Patient family

0.70*

0.29

0.13

EX057

Journalist

 

0.69*

−0.31

0.20

EX017

Ethics and law/academic

 

0.69*

0.23

0.40

EX031

 

Patient family

0.69*

−0.15

0.26

EX040

Journalist

Patient family

0.69*

−0.27

0.52

EX003

Health economist/academic

 

0.67*

−0.03

0.15

EX015

Health economist/academic

 

0.64*

0.21

0.55

EX034

Health policy/charity

 

0.62*

0.44

0.36

EX058

Pharmacy/NHS

 

0.62*

0.11

0.27

EX056

Pharmacist/public health/NHS

 

0.52*

0.13

0.47

EX052

Oncologist

 

0.48*

0.23

0.36

EX036

Anglican Clergyman

 

0.42*

0.23

0.28

METAGP1

  

−0.14

0.92*

−0.19

EX030

 

Cancer survivor

−0.30

0.85*

−0.25

EX050

Nurse (cancer/palliative care)

 

0.03

0.76*

0.20

EX053

Health policy

Patient family

−0.18

0.72*

−0.00

EX038

Journalist

Patient

−0.27

0.67*

0.11

EX049

Sikh/charity

 

−0.06

0.65*

−0.12

EX029

Health policy/NHS manager

Patient

0.08

0.65*

0.14

EX010

Medical marketing

 

−0.20

0.62*

0.35

EX009

 

Experience of bereavement

0.22

0.61*

0.14

EX032

Public health/health policy/NHS

 

0.25

0.60*

0.25

EX041

Chaplain/hospice

 

0.21

0.59*

0.24

EX042

Health policy/hospice

 

0.15

0.58*

0.19

EX059

Muslim

 

0.03

0.54*

−0.17

EX022

Cancer charity/cancer nurse

 

0.32

0.46*

0.32

EX018

Cancer nurse

 

0.15

0.45*

0.39

EX024

Economist/industry

 

−0.09

0.25

0.77*

EX014

Health economist/academic

 

0.37

0.30

0.68*

EX011

Health economist/academic

 

0.25

0.26

0.66*

EX026

Health economist/academic

 

0.38

−0.09

0.65*

EX055

Oncologist

 

0.03

0.27

0.65*

EX025

Health economist/pharmaceutical industry

 

0.44

−0.05

0.63*

EX001

Ethics/academic

 

0.27

0.10

0.63*

EX007

Health economist/NHS

 

0.29

0.17

0.58*

EX028

Health economist/academic

 

0.33

0.14

0.58*

EX021

Health economist/academic

 

0.30

0.10

0.54*

EX047

Palliative medicine/charity

 

0.43

0.16

0.53*

EX016

Health economist/academic

 

0.43

0.12

0.52*

EX043

Nurse (cancer/palliative care)/charity

 

0.33

0.14

0.52*

EX002

 

Experience of bereavement/dignitas member

0.50

−0.03

0.51*

EX004

Medical ethics/academic

 

0.23

0.21

0.43*

EX020

Public health/health policy/NHS

 

0.22

0.16

0.38*

EX006

Medical advisor/pharmaceutical industry

 

0.33

0.34

0.45

EX008

Health technology assessment/pharmaceutical industry

 

0.48

0.28

0.51

EX012

Cancer research/academic

 

0.57

0.17

0.57

EX013

Health economist/NHS

 

0.59

−0.27

0.58

EX019

Health economist/academic

 

0.52

−0.34

0.58

EX027

Bioethics/academic

 

0.49

0.13

0.48

EX046

Medical consultant/palliative medicine

 

0.50

0.32

0.58

EX035

Health policy/charity

 

0.34

0.38

0.50

EX048

Nurse/health policy

Patient

0.38

0.29

0.46

EX051

Cancer nurse

 

0.44

0.41

0.44

EX060

Muslim

 

0.38

0.24

−0.40

% exp. Var.

  

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  1. The significance level for factor loadings is taken as 2.58 (SE). SE represents standard error that is defined as 1/√N where N is the number of statements in the Q set. In this case then, 2.58 (SE) = 2.58 (1/√49) = 0.37. Significant loadings are shown in bold type.
  2. The automatic flagging procedure in PQ method software was used to identify defining sorts (*) according to the following rule: Flag loading a: if (1) a2 > h2/2 (factor ‘explains’ more than half of the common variance) and (2) a > 1.96/√(N items) (loading ‘significant at p <; .05’).
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