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Table 5 Final results of exploratory factor analysis

From: The development of a contextually appropriate measure of psychological distress in Sierra Leone

 

Factors

1

2

3

Item 1: Have you had a poor appetite?

  

0.57

Item 2: Have you preferred to be alone?

  

0.47

Item 4: Have you felt frustrated?

  

0.43

Item 5: Have you felt sad?

  

0.47

Item 7: Have you had difficulty in falling asleep or sleeping well?

  

0.59

Item 9: Have you been so stressed that you have been moving around a lot?

0.52

  

Item 11: Have you felt worried and afraid of what will happen?

0.56

  

Item 12: Have you found that you feel happy, then very quickly feel annoyed or sad?

0.75

  

Item 13:Have you felt discouraged?

 

0.55

 

Item 14: Have you felt that you are a failure or have let yourself down?

 

0.52

 

Item15: Have you spent a lot of time thinking about your life?

0.52

  

Item 16: Have you felt afraid?

0.53

  

Item 17: Have you felt confused?

0.66

  

Item 18: Have you stopped doing your normal activities (for example work, farming or college) because you don't feel able to continue?

0.47

  

Item 19: Have you lost your temper over small things?

0.40

  

Item 21: Have you avoided talking to people?

 

0.71

 

Item 22: Have you felt hopeless?

 

0.77

 

Item 25: Have you felt tired of living

 

0.61

 
  1. Extraction method: principal axis factoring; rotation method: promax with kaiser normalization