Table 1:
Factor loadings of the NOK on first random half of study sample (N = 1 109)
| Item | Mean (SD) |
Depression/ F1 |
Mixed/ F2 |
Anxiety/ F3 |
Somatic/ F4 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | Feeling you look older than you really are | 0.52 (1.11) | 0.67 | 0.12 | −0.05 | −0.02 |
| 27 | Often getting treatment for heart disease | 0.46 (1.09) | 0.56 | −0.09 | 0.07 | 0.11 |
| 13 | Feeling your heart has fallen down | 0.51 (1.10) | 0.48 | −0.06 | 0.30 | −0.01 |
| 17 | Crying until you can cry no more | 0.61 (1.18) | 0.42 | 0.07 | 0.23 | 0.01 |
| 12 | Feeling your heart is heavy | 0.55 (1.12) | 0.40 | −0.01 | 0.35 | 0.00 |
| 11 | Thinking your illness is due to bewitchment | 0.59 (1.20) | 0.39 | 0.06 | 0.25 | 0.02 |
| 19 | Feeling your desire for sex is much decreased | 1.61 (1.35) | 0.38 | 0.16 | 0.16 | −0.03 |
| 21 | Passing hard stools | 1.21 (1.47) | 0.34 | 0.33 | 0.02 | 0.02 |
| 29 | Finding it difficult to wake up/get out of bed in the mornings | 1.10 (1.51) | 0.05 | 0.56 | −0.01 | 0.03 |
| 30 | Getting bad dreams | 1.32 (1.60) | −0.03 | 0.53 | −0.03 | 0.11 |
| 10 | Often having a ringing feeling/sensation in your ears | 1.13 (1.49) | −0.09 | 0.48 | 0.24 | 0.02 |
| 33 | Feeling a terrible pain migrating to different parts of the body. | 0.87 (1.42) | 0.23 | 0.43 | 0.07 | 0.00 |
| 16 | Getting disturbed by noise. | 0.87 (1.38) | 0.10 | 0.40 | 0.18 | 0.00 |
| 20 | Feeling there are worms/snakes crawling through your body and making you ill | 1.46 (2.12) | 0.07 | 0.37 | 0.10 | 0.15 |
| 31 | Having trouble with your vision | 0.78 (1.30) | 0.31 | 0.35 | −0.02 | 0.05 |
| 28 | Having too little sleep | 0.79 (1.30) | 0.30 | 0.35 | −0.05 | 0.04 |
| 32 | Feeling as if the eyes are being drawn inside the head | 0.87 (1.41) | 0.19 | 0.35 | 0.08 | 0.08 |
| 15 | Feeling pains in the upper part of your stomach/abdomen | 1.03 (1.44) | 0.06 | 0.31 | 0.18 | 0.16 |
| 1 | Feeling as if insects or ants are crawling under your skin | 0.66 (1.21) | −0.11 | 0.28 | 0.27 | 0.01 |
| 2 | Feeling a pressure on the top of your head | 0.68 (1.20) | 0.02 | −0.02 | 0.63 | 0.10 |
| 3 | Feeling as if you are carrying a heavy load on your head | 0.66 (1.22) | 0.02 | 0.10 | 0.61 | 0.01 |
| 8 | Feeling as if your blood is slowed down | 0.49 (1.08) | 0.27 | −0.03 | 0.46 | 0.01 |
| 4 | Feeling a lot of pressure between your shoulders | 0.75 (1.24) | 0.07 | 0.22 | 0.41 | −0.02 |
| 6 | Often having pain in your bones | 0.70 (1.25) | 0.14 | 0.13 | 0.37 | 0.09 |
| 5 | Often having joint pains | 0.92 (1.37) | 0.00 | 0.29 | 0.35 | 0.00 |
| 7 | Sweating a lot even if it’s cold outside | 0.76 (1.31) | 0.17 | 0.02 | 0.30 | 0.15 |
| 9 | Your blood is running too fast | 0.62 (1.18) | 0.32 | 0.05 | 0.32 | 0.04 |
| 23 | Often getting treatment for malaria | 1.48 (2.18) | 0.01 | −0.14 | 0.03 | 0.80 |
| 24 | Often getting treatment for stomach-aches | 1.14 (1.49) | 0.07 | 0.03 | −0.09 | 0.70 |
| 25 | Often getting treatment for headaches | 1.34 (1.57) | −0.02 | 0.16 | −0.01 | 0.57 |
| 14 | Getting frequent attacks of malaria | 1.22 (1.51) | −0.08 | 0.09 | 0.16 | 0.55 |
| 26 | Often getting treatment for chest pains | 0.76 (1.34) | 0.33 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.33 |
| 22 | Passing loose stools | 1.52 (2.31) | 0.11 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.30 |
Note: Principal axis factoring, geomin rotation with Kaiser Normalization. Bolded items indicate inclusion in subsequent subscale generation for confirmatory factor analyses. All items are introduced with the statement: “Over the last one week and even today, how much were you distressed by…”