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Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2009 Jun 14;18(6):709–718. doi: 10.1007/s11136-009-9495-x

Table 3.

Structural equation models with partial measurement invariance: comparison of alternative models for help seeking

Model	χ² statistic	df	CFI	RMSEA	Model comparisons

					Models compared^a	χ² difference	df	P value
1. Without service effects	775.792	288	0.883	0.077
2. With biomedical service and traditional healing effects on physical and mental factors	694.021	286	0.898	0.075	1 vs. 2	81.771	2	0.0000
3. With biomedical service and traditional healing effects on physical and mental factors and GH	691.495	260	0.897	0.076	2 vs. 3	2.526	26	1.0000
4. With biomedical service and traditional healing effects on physical and mental factors and BP	655.897	260	0.905	0.073	2 vs. 4	38.124	26	0.0590
5. With biomedical service and traditional healing effects on physical and mental factors, and biomedical service effects on BP	656.727	264	0.906	0.072	2 vs. 5	37.294	22	0.0220
6. With biomedical service and traditional healing effects on physical and mental factors, biomedical service effects on BP, and adjusted by age, gender, and tribe effects	422.140	204	0.946	0.061	5 vs. 6	234.587	60	0.0000

Each model was compared with the best previous model