Table 4.
Factor validity of eating‐related distress of family members: four core domains (n = 558)
| Standardized regression coefficients | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F1 | F2 | F3 | F4 | Communality | |
| F1. Feeling that family members forced the patient to eat to avoid death (mean = 2.03, SD = 1.12, Cronbach's α = 0.77) | |||||
| I felt that a lack of nutrition made the patient's condition worse. | 0.701 | 0.025 | −0.158 | 0.208 | 0.599 |
| I felt that the patient tried to enjoy a good meal not for him/herself but for family members. | 0.620 | −0.047 | 0.062 | −0.133 | 0.455 |
| I felt that I forced the patient to eat. | 0.602 | −0.042 | 0.297 | −0.072 | 0.647 |
| I thought that losing weight resulted from a lack of nutrition and that the patient could gain weight if he/she received enough nutrition. | 0.583 | 0.038 | 0.044 | 0.149 | 0.484 |
| I languished because the patient was disappointed to find that he/she could not eat enough. | 0.466 | −0.220 | 0.074 | −0.012 | 0.442 |
| F2. Feeling that family members made great efforts to help the patient eat (mean = 2.95, SD = 1.08, Cronbach's α = 0.75) | |||||
| I tried making many kinds of meals for the patient. | 0.083 | −0.773 | −0.033 | 0.063 | 0.683 |
| I was concerned about planning meals for the patient every day. | 0.054 | −0.722 | 0.047 | 0.158 | 0.701 |
| I served what the patient wanted without consideration of calories and nutritional composition. | −0.045 | −0.550 | −0.010 | −0.038 | 0.289 |
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F3. Feeling that eating was a cause of conflicts between the patient and family members (mean = 1.37, SD = 0.74, Cronbach's α = 0.68) |
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| I experienced conflict about the patient's daily diet with him/her. | −0.085 | −0.044 | 0.673 | 0.071 | 0.468 |
| I felt disregarded when the patient could not eat meals which I made. | −0.010 | −0.007 | 0.641 | −0.001 | 0.447 |
| The patient was burdened by meals that I kindly made for him/her. | 0.272 | −0.131 | 0.537 | 0.047 | 0.643 |
| I thought that the patient could not eat because of a lack of effort on his/her part. | 0.059 | 0.057 | 0.441 | 0.018 | 0.273 |
| F4. Feeling that correct information was insufficient (mean = 1.77, SD = 1.00, Cronbach's α = 0.66) | |||||
| Friends and relatives recommended many kinds of foods to me for the patient's daily diet, but I was just confused. | 0.002 | −0.039 | 0.083 | 0.704 | 0.568 |
| I would like to have consulted with an expert who had specific knowledge of nutritional support about the patient's daily diet. | 0.033 | −0.061 | 0.038 | 0.621 | 0.472 |
| Cumulative proportion, 47.7% | |||||
F#, Factors 1 to 4; SD, standard deviation; Cronbach's α, Cronbach's alpha coefficients.
Boldfaced numbers indicate attributes belonging to each domain.