Table 2.
Promax Rotated Factor Loadings for an Exploratory Factor Analysis Using Iterated Principal Factor Analysis. Loadings < .25 are Not Reported (n = 138).
| Items. | Withdrawal Worry | Relapse Worry |
|---|---|---|
| I don’t want the bone and muscle aches that happen during withdrawal. | 0.94 | |
| I don’t want to experience the flu-like symptoms that happen during withdrawal. | 0.91 | |
| I don’t want to be sick to my stomach from withdrawal. | 0.9 | |
| I don’t want to feel like I am jumping out of my skin. | 0.84 | |
| I don’t want to feel physically sick. | 0.74 | |
| I don’t want to feel jittery. | 0.74 | |
| I don’t want to experience difficulty sleeping. | 0.72 | |
| I won’t be able to manage the anxiety. | 0.69 | |
| I don’t want to be irritable with other people and know that I will be. | 0.67 | |
| I won’t be able to function. | 0.67 | 0.27 |
| I don’t know what medicine to ask my doctor for that could help with my symptoms.a | 0.52 | |
| I don’t know the best way to taper off buprenorphine.a | 0.41 | |
| The cravings will be too much for me to handle. | 0.27 | 0.68 |
| I won’t be able to refuse opiates offered to me. | 0.83 | |
| I won’t be able to do it on my own. | 0.59 | |
| I am afraid that I will relapse back to opiates. | 0.83 | |
| I’m confident that I could stick with my goal of staying off buprenorphine. | 0.76 | |
| I’ll end up drinking or using some other drug to deal with withdrawal. | 0.63 | |
| It will be easy to control my urges for opiates once I’m off buprenorphine. | 0.76 |
a
Excluded from final indexes.