Journal of Transplantation / 2016 / Article / Tab 3 / Research Article
For and against Organ Donation and Transplantation: Intricate Facilitators and Barriers in Organ Donation Perceived by German Nurses and Doctors Table 3 Mean values, reliability, and factor analysis of item addressing the agreement to consider facilitating ODT arguments with relatives.
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: personal ethical facilitators (eigenvalue 2.9; 42% explained variance; alpha = .73) Your consent could be a source of meaning in your own life 2.78 0.94 .603 .723 .841 Your consent would be an act of charity 2.75 0.99 .569 .730 .721 Your consent is an ethical duty 3.50 0.77 .355 .771 .710 The death of the diseased would have a purpose 2.70 1.03 .491 .749 .555 .323 Factor 2: concrete altruistic effects (eigenvalue 1.3; 18% explained variance; alpha = .72) Your consent can save the life of another person 1.47 0.74 .462 .754 .880 Your consent can do good 1.69 0.85 .509 .744 .833 You might come to a point where you yourself could be in need of a transplantation 1.98 0.99 .498 .746 .333 .610
Extraction of the main components (eigenvalue > 1); varimax rotation with Kaiser’s normalization. Rotation is converged in 3 iterations. Both factors explain 61% of variance. Scores range from 1 (agreement) to 4 (disagreement).