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Table 3 Factor loadings of the AR-PAID-5 from the confirmatory factor analysis (N = 260)

From: Psychometric evaluation of the Arabic version of the 5-item Problem Areas in Diabetes (AR-PAID-5) scale

Items of the AR-PAID-5

Factor loadings

Standardized estimate

SE

p-value

Item 3

0.922

0.020

0.000*

Item 6

0.918

0.020

0.000*

Item 12

0.767

0.034

0.000*

Item 16

0.856

0.021

0.000*

Item 19

0.821

0.030

0.000*

 

Goodness-of-fit indices

Model fit χ2 (df, p-value)

11.516 (5), 0.042

 

CMIN/DF

2.3

 

CFI

0.997

 

TLI

0.995

 

SRMR

0.022

 

RMSEA

0.071

 
  1. Item 3: “Feeling scared”; item 6: “Feeling depressed”; item 12:Worrying about future complications”; item 16: “Feeling that diabetes is taking up too much energy”; item 19: “Coping with complications”
  2. CMIN/DF, ratio of Chi-square [χ2] value to the degrees of freedom [df] (good if CMIN/DF < 3); CFI, comparative fit index (good fit ≥0.90); TLI, Tucker Lewis Index (good if ≥0.90); SRMR, standardized root mean square residual (good fit ≤0.08); RMSEA, root mean square error of approximation (acceptable fit ≤0.08); SE, standard error
  3. *. Statistically significant at p-value < 0.05
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