For and against Organ Donation and Transplantation: Intricate Facilitators and Barriers in Organ Donation Perceived by German Nurses and Doctors

Table 2

Mean values, reliability, and factor analysis of item addressing the perception of ethical issues.

Factors and items	Mean value (score 1–4)	SD	Corrected item-total correlation	Alpha if item is deleted ()	Loading factor 1	Loading factor 2
Factor 1: ethical barriers to ODT (eigenvalue 2.2; 38% explained variance; alpha = .67)
Handling of the personal convictions of colleagues	2.40	0.83	.395	.648	.781
Respect for the individual problems of patients/relatives	2.16	0.76	.426	.638	.726
Transparency of the system	2.01	0.89	.548	.591	.634	.406
Justice in the distribution of organs	1.87	0.83	.445	.631	.533	.403
Factor 2: external ethical issues in ODT (eigenvalue 1.0; 17% explained variance; alpha = .47)
Scandals in transplantation medicine	1.71	0.77	.335	.667		.773
Lack of organs	1.70	0.76	.326	.669		.737

Extraction of the main components (eigenvalue > 1); varimax rotation with Kaiser’s normalization.
Rotation is converged in 3 iterations. Both factors explain 55% of variance.
Scores range from 1 (agreement) to 4 (disagreement).
Scale is not suited to be used.