Table 4.

Principal Components Analysis results for the questions on worries: factor loadings and variance explained.^a

Worries	Component
	1	2	3
Using up savings or retirement funds to pay for cancer care	0.88115	0.17152	0.23364
The cost of treatment	0.84507	0.27797	0.21274
Being set financially back because of medical expenses	0.83082	0.29038	0.36563
Transportation to treatment	0.66637	0.38224	0.00403
The side-effects from treatment	0.27847	0.80405	− 0.14110
Going through early menopause	0.08647	0.68381	0.29595
Not knowing what to expect	0.32925	0.68363	0.29778
Changes in body image	0.26301	0.60818	0.23418
Taking time away from work or other daily activities	0.30516	0.57993	0.44538
Developing other cancers later	0.42510	0.57513	0.23232
Having to postpone or avoid medical care for other family members	0.28372	0.05902	0.81380
Taking time away from your family	0.12975	0.39884	0.74237
Variance explained by each factor	3.25864	3.11807	1.95028
Percent of total variance explained by component (variance / number of items)	27.2%	26.0%	16.3%

Indicated in bold are factor loadings of items that define a component.

^aRotated factor loading; Tetrachoric correlation matrix; varimax (orthogonal) rotation.