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The items stating negative attitude largely loaded highly on the first factor except for Item 13.
All items stating a positive attitude had high loading on the first factor and items of negative experience had high loading on the second factor.
Items 7 and 10 also loaded highly on the first factor in spite of items stating positive experience, but these two items had substantial correlation with both the factors.
Comfrey and Lee (26) consider a sample size of 300 as good and 500 very good, while Gorsuch (27) makes recommendations based on the ratio of participants to items, stating that a minimum of five participants is required per item.
On the other hand, as for the PSS-J, all items stating positive attitude were highly related to the first factor and all items of negative attitude to the second factor.
'Direct' measures of attitudes to opting for BCS and opting for mastectomy were calculated by averaging responses to the items stating For me, choosing BCS/mastectomy would be … harmful/beneficial, wrong/right.
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Each of the 23 items states a problem, for example "difficulty walking".
Each of the 23 items states a problem, for example 'it is hard for me to run' and refers to the past week (acute version).
The comprehensibility degree was operationalized as the percentage of the number of items stated as clear by the participants, and the reliability degree as the percentage of the number of unchanged responses after the interview.
Every child who responded to the question about order of items stated that is was easier to answer with response sets in the order of 'never' to 'sometimes' to 'mostly' rather than vice versa.
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