TABLE 1.

Questions Regarding Health Care System Distrust Among Women in the 2008 Philadelphia Health Management Corporation Household Health Survey: Factor Loadings With Varimax Rotation

	Component
Actual Questions	Competencea	Valuesb
Health care system makes patients’ health betterc	0.733	0.190
Health care system covers up its mistakes	0.027	0.698
Patients receive high-quality care from health care systemc	0.799	0.204
Health care system makes too many mistakes	0.295	0.634
Health care system puts making money above patients’ needs	0.297	0.693
Health care system gives excellent medical carec	0.796	0.201
Patients get same medical treatment regardless of racec	0.564	0.283
Health care system lies to make money	0.294	0.712
Health care system experiments on patients without them knowing	0.241	0.636

^aThe range of the competence factor scores is 7.47 (-4.316∼3.154), with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.

^bThe range of the values factor scores is 6.98 (-3.180∼3.800), with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.

^cItem is reverse-coded.