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Table 3 Standardized Factor Loadings and error variances of 45-Item IRB-RAT-CV for Actual IRB

From: Cross-cultural validation of the IRB Researcher Assessment Tool: Chinese Version

Actual IRB

Domain

Items

Factor-item loading

Error variances

Procedural justice

Item 1*

0.78

0.34

Item 2*

0.86

0.21

Item 3

0.89

0.16

Item 4

0.91

0.14

Item 5

0.90

0.16

Item 6

0.87

0.19

Item 7

0.88

0.20

Interactional justice

Item 8

0.91

0.14

Item 9

0.91

0.14

Item 10

0.88

0.17

Item 11

0.93

0.12

Item 12

0.88

0.20

Absence of bias

Item 13

0.91

0.13

Item 14

0.91

0.15

Item 15

0.82

0.26

Item 16

0.91

0.14

Item 17

0.91

0.15

Pro-science sensitivity

Item 18

0.91

0.13

Item 19

0.92

0.13

Item 20

0.91

0.14

Item 21

0.90

0.16

Item 22

0.90

0.15

IRB competence

Item 23

0.90

0.18

Item 24

0.91

0.14

Item 25

0.91

0.13

Item 26

0.90

0.16

Item 27

0.93

0.13

Item 28

0.88

0.23

Item 29

0.87

0.24

Item 30

0.90

0.19

IRB outreach

Item 31

0.92

0.14

Item 32

0.90

0.21

Item 33

0.91

0.17

Item 34

0.90

0.19

IRB formal functioning, structure, and composition

Item 35

0.92

0.13

Item 36

0.89

0.17

Item 37

0.88

0.21

Item 38

0.85

0.27

Item 39

0.89

0.20

Item 40*

0.87

0.20

Item 41*

0.76

0.44

Upholding the rights of human participants

Item 42

0.86

0.21

Item 43

0.92

0.14

Item 44

0.94

0.10

Item 45

0.79

0.39

  1. *The correlation coefficient between the error variances of items 1 and 2 is 0.35, and the correlation coefficient between the error variances of items 40 and 41 is 0.48
  2. IRB-RAT-CV = institutional review board researcher assessment tool Chinese version