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. 2023 Aug 7;22:259. doi: 10.1186/s12912-023-01426-2

Table 3.

Item analysis of the scale

Item t-Value p Factor loading Cronbach’s α if item deleted Corrected item-total
correlation coefficients
Retained item
1 11.932 <0.001 0.812 0.886 (↓) 0.572**
2 6.887 <0.001 0.666 0.890 (↓) 0.423**
3 14.241 <0.001 0.622 0.885 (↓) 0.612**
4 12.844 <0.001 0.851 0.885 (↓) 0.602**
5 10.003 <0.001 0.751 0.889 (↓) 0.478**
6 12.804 <0.001 0.839 0.885 (↓) 0.592**
7 9.965 <0.001 0.844 0.888 (↓) 0.507**
8 9.300 <0.001 0.872 0.888 (↓) 0.478**
9 14.278 <0.001 0.887 0.884 (↓) 0.621**
10 7.751 <0.001 0.824 0.890 (↓) 0.425**
11 5.233 <0.001 0.290 0.893 (↑) 0.346** ×
12 14.555 <0.001 0.857 0.883 (↓) 0.673**
13 10.504 <0.001 0.848 0.887 (↓) 0.545**
14 10.611 <0.001 0.810 0.887 (↓) 0.554**
15 15.817 <0.001 0.819 0.883 (↓) 0.660**
16 10.478 <0.001 0.872 0.886 (↓) 0.552**
17 15.130 <0.001 0.826 0.884 (↓) 0.656**
18 14.504 <0.001 0.837 0.884 (↓) 0.654**
19 15.433 <0.001 0.836 0.883 (↓) 0.691**
20 18.096 <0.001 0.817 0.882 (↓) 0.710**
21 10.659 <0.001 0.655 0.889 (↓) 0.464**
22 5.732 <0.001 0.280 0.892 (↑) 0.389** ×

Note. “√” indicates that the item was selected; ** indicates significance p < 0.01; “↓” indicates that once the item is deleted, the

Cronbach’s α decreases