Table 3.
Factor Analysis: Pattern Matrix
| Symptom | N = 687 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Factor 1 | Factor 2 | Factor 3 | |
| Acute volume overload | Emotional | Chronic volume overload | |
| Did your heart failure prevent you from living as you wanted during the last month by: | |||
| Making you short of breath | .904 | .016 | -.115 |
| Making you tired, fatigued, or low on energy | .855 | .054 | .002 |
| Making your sleeping well at night difficult | .408 | .178 | .250 |
| Making you feel depressed | -.077 | .926 | -.003 |
| Making you worry | .412 | .833 | .222 |
| Making it difficult for you to concentrate or remember things | -.005 | .698 | .093 |
| Causing swelling in your ankles, legs, etc. | -.133 | .056 | .909 |
| Making you sit or lie down to rest during the day (need to rest) | .480 | .013 | .502 |
| Making your walking about or climbing stairs difficult (dyspnea on exertion) | .410 | .013 | .544 |
Factor loadings in bold indicate the clusters Extraction Method: Principal Components Analysis Rotation Method: Oblimin with Kaiser Normalization