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Published in final edited form as: Int J Public Health. 2020 Apr 1;65(3):335–344. doi: 10.1007/s00038-020-01354-x

Table 1.

Principal component factor analysis results, National Health Interview Survey. (USA 2017)

Items	Factor loadings		Uniqueness
Items	Financial worries	Healthcare insecurity
How worried are you about… medical costs of healthcare	0.8403	0.0690	0.1566
How worried are you about… paying rent/ mortgage/ housing costs	0.8717	0.0782	0.1660
How worried are you about… maintaining standard of living	0.8267	0.1012	0.0347
How worried are you about… paying monthly bills	0.8269	0.0527	0.0363
Couldn’t afford prescription medicine, past 12 months	0.1128	0.5923	0.02377
Couldn’t afford mental health care/ counseling, past 12 months	0.0667	0.5496	0.0714
Couldn’t afford dental care, past 12 months	0.1568	0.6329	0.2167
Couldn’t afford eyeglasses, past 12 months	0.1046	0.6399	0.2176
Couldn’t afford to see a specialist, past 12 months	0.0798	0.7824	0.0577
Couldn’t afford follow-up care, past 12 months	0.0688	0.7692	0.0406
Worried food run out before had money to buy more	0.1254	0.0992	0.9224
Food did not last before had money to get more	0.1055	0.0918	0.9263

Eigen values	3.95143	2.16932	1.43631
Variance	0.3293	0.1808	0.1197

Bolded factor loadings indicate items that were included in the construct