Development and psychometric evaluation of a new tool for measuring the attitudes of patients with progressive neurological diseases to ethical aspects of end-of-life care

Table 3 Exploratory Factor Analysis of Items in Area II: “Factors influencing decision-making”

Rotated Component Matrix^a
Attitudes	Patients			Family members
Attitudes	1	2	α^b α^c	1	2	α^b α^c
Dom 3 TRUST IN THE DOCTOR/TREATMENT			0.852			0.804
vDoctor’s recommendation	0.872		0.815	0.833		0.734
More doctors’ consensus	0.901		0.828	0.869		0.760
Hope of a better quality of life	0.643	0.536	0.801	0.7795		0.722
Hope of prolonging life	0.622	0.322	0.801	0.617	0.381	0.804
Dom 4 TRUST IN SOCIAL SUPPORT			0.652			0.679
The approval of the closest family		0.358	0.584		0.608	0.592
Information from mass media and the Internet		0.822	0.532		0.835	0.621
Other patients’ experiences	0.376	0.740	0.399	0.399	0.637	0.507
	52.1%	15.9%		45.4%	17.8%

^aVarimax with Kaiser Normalization, Coefficients below 0.3 suppressed, ^bCronbach’s alpha for domain, ^cCronbach’s alpha if item deleted

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