Table 4.

Factor loadings and service effects of the final model (model 6 in Table 3)

SF36 subscales	Group
	1. Neither diabetes or hypertension (N = 567)		2. Diabetes only (N = 114)		3. Hypertension only (N = 324)		4. Diabetes and hypertension (N = 130)
	Physical	Mental	Physical	Mental	Physical	Mental	Physical	Mental
Standardized factor loadings
1. Physical functioning (PF)	0.672		0.797		0.747		0.724
2. Role-physical (RP)	0.767		0.785		0.832		0.733
3. Bodily Pain (BP)a	0.761		0.670		0.689		0.687
4. General health (GH)a	0.346	0.423	0.585	0.193	0.562	0.201	0.565	0.226
5. Vitality (VT)	0.332	0.515	0.433	0.467	0.401	0.469	0.411	0.538
6. Social function (SF)	0.455	0.351	0.577	0.310	0.553	0.323	0.510	0.333
7. Role-emotional (RE)		0.686		0.640		0.613		0.611
8. Mental health (MH)		0.801		0.840		0.807		0.810
Correlation between factors	0.584		0.409		0.452		0.506
Relationships of help seeking variables to SF36 (estimate/SE)b
Physical/mental factor on biomedical service	−1.789	−1.597	−0.597	−0.231	−2.999	−0.213	0.075	−0.045
Physical/mental factor on traditional healing	−3.578	−2.694	0.057	0.729	−2.149	−1.210	−3.421	−0.169
BP on biomedical service	−3.868		−3.305		−2.545		−2.458

^aFactor loadings are bolded to indicate the unstandardized loadings of these two items are assumed to be different between group 1 and groups 2, 3, and 4 (the loadings of these two items are assumed to be equal among groups 2, 3, and 4). The unstandardized loadings of all the other six items are assumed to be equal among all the four groups

^bBolded if P < 0.05