Table 5.

Factor loadings, class‐specific levels of correct awareness (%) about breast cancer's warning signs, the size of classes and item‐scale correlations

Warning signs	Exploratory factor analysis		Latent class analysis						Item‐scale correlationsa
	Factor loadings		Class 1 (high awareness)		Class 2 (moderate awareness)		Class 3 (poor awareness)
	Breast shape changes	Breast pain and lump	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Change in nipple position	0.645		83.19	16.81	25.06	74.94	0.25	99.75	0.472
Pulling in of nipple	0.731		63.7	36.3	8.82	91.18	0.04	99.96	0.462
Puckering/dimpling	0.718		81.9	18.1	15.17	84.83	2.45	97.55	0.502
Lump in breast		0.787	95.16	4.84	83.01	16.99	15.26	84.74	0.541
Redness of skin	0.635		69.26	30.74	15.78	84.22	0.06	99.94	0.450
Change in size	0.420	0.503	88.88	11.12	30.82	69.18	0.49	99.51	0.483
Pain in breast/armpit		0.686	90.45	9.55	68.68	31.32	9.65	90.35	0.606
Discharge from nipple		0.574	94.53	5.47	56.75	43.25	0.08	99.92	0.569
Nipple rash	0.691		82.36	17.64	14.84	85.16	0.05	99.95	0.522
Lump under armpit		0.751	95.11	4.89	71.18	28.82	0.31	99.69	0.590
Change in shape	0.507	0.464	94.02	5.98	32.08	67.92	0.5	99.5	0.499
Variance explainedb (%) and class sizec (%)	26.98%b	23.67%b	12.83%c		60.97%c		26.2%c

Factor loadings <0.4 are not shown for simplicity.

^aPhi's correlation coefficients between each item and its own domain (extracted classes) corrected for overlap.

^bVariance explained resulted from factor analysis.

^cClass size resulted from latent class analysis.