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. 2021 Aug 30;66:1604260. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2021.1604260

TABLE 1.

Results of the Exploratory Factorial Analysis of the Pandemic Fatigue Scale: Factor Loadings, Reliability Estimates, and Percentage of Explained Variance. Study Attitudes, behaviors, and psychological health in time of pandemic, Spain, 2021.

Items Highest loading for each one of the two factors
F1 F2
1. I am fed up with the COVID topic being talked about so much in all the media 0.872
2. When someone starts talking about COVID, I am disinterested 0.779
3. I do not want to hear more about the COVID issue 0.877
4. I am already so tired of the COVID issue that I am not as careful as I was at the beginning 0.888
5. So much time immersed in the pandemic discourages me from adopting protection measures against COVID 0.883
6. I am already so fed up with COVID that I no longer adopt certain protection measures that I would have taken before to avoid becoming infected 0.849
Scale reliability estimates
 Cronbach’s alpha values 0.85 0.89
 Percentage of explained variance 59.28 20.08