Table 5.

Factor loads obtained from Turkish and US algorithms and comparison of mean scores of Turkish and US algorithms for PCS and MCS

	Factor 1 (TR)	Factor 1 (US)	Factor 2 (TR)	Factor 2 (US)
PF	0.83	0.88	0.01	0.04
RP	0.84	0.78	0.18	0.30
BP	0.77	0.77	0.15	0.24
MH	0.09	0.12	0.90	0.90
RE	0.53	0.19	0.42	0.81
SF	0.69	0.44	0.31	0.71
GH	0.65	0.68	0.34	0.32
VT	0.24	0.59	0.85	0.57
	PCS (TR) (Mean ± SD)	PCS (US) (Mean ± SD)	MCS (TR) (Mean ± SD)	MCS (US) (Mean ± SD)
	49.8 ± 10.8	52.6 ± 8.8	49.6 ± 9.9	51.7 ± 5.7
p*	<0.0001		<0.0001

*Wilcoxon signed rank test