Table 3:

Factor structure of the SF-12v2 derived from principal components analysis†

Variable	Total (N=1000)		Institutional care (N=549)		Community-based home care (N=451)
	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 1	Factor 2
Physical functioning (PF)
PF1	0.89†	0.14	0.90†	0.15	0.85†	0.10
PF2	0.88†	0.09	0.88†	0.10	0.85†	0.04
Role physical (RP)
RP1	0.87†	0.30	0.88†	0.32	0.82†	0.28
RP2	0.87†	0.27	0.88†	0.31	0.84†	0.21
Bodily pain (BP)
BP1	0.52†	0.27	0.46†	0.29	0.67†	0.23
General health (GH)
GH1	0.53†	0.39	0.49†	0.48	0.54†	0.26
Social functioning (SF)
SF1	0.75†	0.38	0.73†	0.43	0.69†	0.34
Role emotional (RE)
RE1	0.42	0.77†	0.33	0.83†	0.50	0.69†
RE2	0.39	0.78†	0.34	0.83†	0.43	0.70†
Vitality (VT)
VT1	0.63†	0.43	0.63	0.43	0.58†	0.43
Mental health (MH)
MH1	0.07	0.78†	0.14	0.79†	−0.01	0.75†
MH2	0.21	0.84†	0.20	0.87†	0.18	0.78†
Eigenvalues	6.69	1.51	6.84	1.60	6.09	1.43
Variance explained (%)	41.40	26.97	39.86	30.48	40.18	22.50