Adapting World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 for Nepal

BMC Psychology

Table 3 Item-to-factor correlations from free and forced rotated factor analyses of WHO DAS 2.0 (12-items version) translated into Nepali within those with a disability (n = 92)

Items	Text of the items	Rotated three-factors solution*			Forced one-factor solution**
	Text of the items	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3
	In the last 30 days, how much difficulty did you have in:	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3
1	Standing for long periods such as 30 min?	0.77	0.29	0.04	0.75
2	Taking care of your household responsibilities?	0.46	0.66	0.10	0.78
3	Learning a new task, for example, learning how to get to a new place?	0.09	0.81	0.03	0.58
4	How much of a problem did you have in joining in community activities (for example, festivities, religious or other activities) in the same way as anyone else can?	0.17	0.69	0.12	0.59
5	How much have you been emotionally affected by your health problems?	0.55	0.37	0.12	0.66
6	Concentrating on doing something for ten minutes?	0.55	0.57	0.16	0.79
7	Walking a long distance such as a kilometer [or equivalent]?	0.73	0.37	0.23	0.82
8	Washing your whole body?	0.72	0.39	0.03	0.77
9	Getting dressed?	0.87	− 0.06	0.11	0.63
10	Dealing with people you do not know?	0.08	0.01	0.88	0.31
11	Maintaining a friendship?	0.15	0.25	0.81	0.49
12	Your day-to-day work/school?	0.40	0.58	0.25	0.72
Explained variance % (cumulative percentage for the three-factor solution)	28.6	51.8	65.3	45.4
Cronbach alpha	0.89

^*Principal component analysis with Varimax rotation; **Principal component analysis

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