Table 3.

Factor loadings for the osteoporosis drug treatment benefits and drug treatment barriers sub-scales, N = 871

		Factor Loadings*
Items		Benefits	Barriers	Unique Variance
Osteoporosis drug treatment benefits†
1	Drug treatments can help to build strong bones	0.80	0.07	0.36
2	You would feel good about taking drug treatments to prevent osteoporosis	0.94	-0.06	0.11
3	Drug treatments can cut down the chances of broken bones	0.87	0.10	0.25
6	You would consider taking drug treatments to prevent broken bones	0.90	-0.06	0.17
11	If your doctor advised you to, you would take drug treatments to prevent broken bones	0.78	-0.12	0.36
Drug treatment barriers†
8‡	You are taking too many medications	-0.12	0.85	0.25
9‡	You have stomach problems that limit your ability to take drug treatment	0.14	0.56	0.69

*Varimax solutions calculated using polychoric correlation and asymptotic covariance matrices, explains 78.2% of model variance (benefits: 57.2%, barriers: 21.0%).

^† Sub-scales labeled based on item content.

^‡ Items 8 and 9 reverse coded prior to factor analysis.