Table 2.

Factor loadings and reliability measures for development of 5-factor scale version of the caregiver vaccine acceptance scale, Ghana 2017.

		Standardized factor loading
Item	Item mean (SD)	VPD Awareness	Benefits	Past Behavior	Efficacy and Safety	Trust
Have you personally seen someone with either	1.58 (0.04)	0.93
polio, pneumonia, measles or whooping cough?
Do you know of someone in your family or	1.71 (0.04)	0.93
community who had either polio, pneumonia,
measles or whooping cough?
I believe vaccines are safe	0.03 (0.01)		0.93
I believe vaccines protect my child from vaccine	0.03 (0.01)		0.95
preventable disease.
Have you ever delayed having your child get a	0.48 (0.04)			0.89
vaccination for reasons other than illness or
allergy?
Have you ever decided not to have your child get a	0.32 (0.04)			0.78
vaccination for reasons other than illness or
allergy?
Vaccination does more good than harm	0.24 (0.03)				0.85
Many of the illnesses which vaccination prevent are	0.19 (0.02)				0.45
severe
If you had another infant today would you want	0.07 (0.02)					0.55
your infant to get all recommended
vaccinations?
Do you trust the information that you receive from	0.05 (0.01)					0.54
your healthcare worker about vaccinations?
Following the nationally recommended vaccination	0.04 (0.01)					0.66
schedule is a good idea for my child
Omega coefficient		0.94	0.99	0.86	0.92	0.78
Alpha coefficient		0.78	0.87	0.64	0.54	0.41
Mislevy & Bock reliability		0.90	0.94	0.85	0.80	0.73

Factor loadings <0.30 not shown and items which failed to load onto any of the five factors not listed in table.

^*Definitions: SD: standard deviation; VPD: vaccine-preventable disease.