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Table 4 Factor loadings and final communality for PCA

From: Impact of an outpatient palliative care consultation and symptom clusters in terminal patients at a tertiary care center in Pakistan

Symptom

Components

Final communality

1

2

3

Anxietya

0.5663a

-0.0493

-0.0037

0.737

Depressiona

0.5521a

-0.0803

0.2039

0.800

Wellbeinga

0.4020a

-0.0068

-0.0115

0.380

Nausea

-0.1238

0.6315a

0.2487

0.667

Loss of appetite

-0.0378

0.5316a

-0.3538

0.653

Tiredness

0.2889

0.4173a

-0.1642

0.650

SOB

0.0856

0.3591a

0.2572

0.350

Drowsiness

0.0861

0.0618

0.7201a

0.680

Pain

0.3131

0.0532

-0.3994

0.387

Percent (%) of variance

0.3027

0.1683

0.1183

-

Cronbach’s alpha

0.7473

0.5912

-

-

  1. aValues represent distinct clusters related to factor loading scores. Factor loading values indicate the contribution of each variable to the component. A high value indicates that the factor strongly influences the component