Psychometric validation of three new condition-specific questionnaires to assess quality of life, symptoms and treatment satisfaction of patients with aortic aneurysm

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes

Table 8 AneurysmTSQ factor loadings, communalities and reliability coefficients: Post-repair patients

Aspect of Treatment	Factor Loading	Communalities	Alpha if Item Deleted (Overall alpha = 0.902)
Treatment	0.843	0.711	0.886
Information	0.831	0.690	0.892
Post-op follow-up	0.829	0.687	0.884
Support staff	0.826	0.683	0.886
Convenience	0.724	0.525	0.891
Understand treatment	0.713	0.509	0.892
Stay length	0.666	0.443	0.893
Results feedback	0.631	0.398	0.898
Encourage others	0.571	0.326	0.898
Discomfort or pain	0.518	0.268	0.901
Side-effects	0.476	0.227	0.906
Percentage total variance = 49.69		Number of items in scale = 11	ICC = 0.88