Table 3.

Factor analysis of professional competency perception

Domain	Variable	Factor loading
Patient care	Ambulatory care services	0.861	0.094	0.184	0.173
	Inter-professional collaboration	0.731	0.305	0.292	0.004
	Patient counseling on medication use	0.719	0.104	0.165	0.392
	Acute care services	0.665	0.074	0.100	0.527
	Medication reconciliation services	0.590	0.170	0.230	0.488
Consumer protection and community health services	Consumer protection (eg, surveillance of health products, pharmacies, and clinics)	0.120	0.863	0.198	0.176
	Herbal and alternative medicines	0.123	0.726	0.270	0.280
	Primary care services (eg, patient home visit and supervision of primary care hospitals)	0.520	0.601	0.186	0.208
Health administration and communication	Solving public health problems in rural areas	0.303	0.161	0.796	0.189
	Health administration (eg, drug selection, procurement, and inventory management)	0.050	0.355	0.745	0.183
	Communication with patients and lay people	0.451	0.166	0.658	0.197
Drug review and information	Drug use evaluation or drug utilization review	0.220	0.364	0.214	0.732
	Drug information services to health professionals and the public	0.263	0.261	0.243	0.708

Notes: Values in bold represent strong correlation to specific factors. Factor analysis was based on the principal components analysis method with varimax rotation. A factor loading of 0.60 was used as a cutoff point.