Table 2.
Results of Factor Analysis for SPADI on 3 occasions
Baseline | 3 months | 6 months | ||||
Item | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Pain at its worst | 0.09 | 0.76 | 0.84 | 0.22 | 0.87 | 0.20 |
Pain when lying on involved side | 0.24 | 0.82 | 0.85 | 0.24 | 0.88 | 0.22 |
Pain when reaching for something on a high shelf | 0.33 | 0.81 | 0.85 | 0.31 | 0.88 | 0.30 |
Pain when touching the back of your neck | 0.61 | 0.52 | 0.66 | 0.52 | 0.68 | 0.46 |
Pain pushing with involved arm | 0.27 | 0.78 | 0.78 | 0.26 | 0.74 | 0.42 |
Difficulty washing your hair | 0.76 | 0.40 | 0.39 | 0.82 | 0.44 | 0.79 |
Difficulty washing your back | 0.69 | 0.44 | 0.51 | 0.72 | 0.50 | 0.65 |
Difficulty putting on an undershirt or pullover sweater | 0.66 | 0.42 | 0.45 | 0.76 | 0.45 | 0.76 |
Difficulty putting on a shirt that buttons down the front | 0.87 | 0.05 | 0.27 | 0.82 | 0.22 | 0.85 |
Difficulty putting on your pants | 0.80 | 0.16 | 0.10 | 0.83 | 0.14 | 0.85 |
Difficulty placing an object on a high shelf | 0.49 | 0.70 | 0.79 | 0.43 | 0.72 | 0.52 |
Difficulty carrying a heavy object of 10 pounds | 0.47 | 0.61 | 0.61 | 0.53 | 0.55 | 0.56 |
Difficulty removing something from your back pocket | 0.68 | 0.36 | 0.40 | 0.73 | 0.36 | 0.79 |
Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis. Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization. Rotation converged in 3 iterations. The items falling into the "pain factor" are bolded and the items falling into the disability factor are underlined.