Reliability and validity of the preparatory grief scale for use with hemodialysis patients

Table 3 Parameter estimation results of confirmatory factor analysis of the preparatory grief in advanced cancer patient scale

Sub-scales	Item	Parameter significance estimation				Factor loading
		Unstd.	SE	t	P value	Std.
Sadness and anger	Item 3	1				0.772
	Item 4	1.002	0.068	14.778	a	0.764
	Item 5	1.032	0.069	14.943	a	0.773
	Item 6	0.812	0.072	11.351	a	0.614
	Item 7	0.916	0.068	13.413	a	0.710
	Item 8	1.015	0.067	15.199	a	0.783
	Item 9	0.764	0.063	12.092	a	0.647
	Item 10	0.871	0.073	12.004	a	0.644
	Item 12	0.714	0.062	11.513	a	0.620
	Item 19	0.86	0.069	12.412	a	0.663
	Item 20	0.846	0.064	13.272	a	0.701
Disease adjustment	Item 17	1				0.693
	Item 23	1.142	0.104	11.025	a	0.717
Somatic symptoms	Item 29	1				0.503
	Item 27	1.336	0.17	7.841	a	0.627
	Item 26	1.412	0.167	8.455	a	0.719
	Item 24	1.104	0.152	7.273	a	0.548
Religious comfort	Item 14	1				0.709
	Item 15	0.8	0.07	11.357	a	0.630
	Item 31	0.847	0.075	11.305	a	0.630
Perceived social support	Item 1	1				0.536
	Item 2	1.815	0.194	9.362	a	0.805
	Item 30	1.866	0.199	9.368	a	0.823
Wish	Item 21	1				0.844
	Item 22	0.995	0.054	18.345	a	0.884
Self-consciousness	Item 16	1				0.811
	Item 18	0.847	0.057	14.804	a	0.776

^aP < 0.001.