Development and preliminary validation of a questionnaire to measure satisfaction with home care in Greece: an exploratory factor analysis of polychoric correlations

Table 7 Correlations between scale scores and respondents' characteristics †

Scale/Characteristic	Socio-Economic Change	Staff Skills & Attitudes	Service Appropriateness	Service Planning
Overall Satisfaction Scale	0.689***	0.653***	0.402***	0.336**
	(0.570)***	(0.536)***	(0.337)***	(0.269)**
	[0.472]***	[0.806]***	[0.434]***	[0.391]**
Socio-Economic Change	-	0.542***	0.491***	0.158**
	-	(0.426)***	(0.388)***	(0.123)**
	-	[0.675]***	[0.480]***	[0.261]***
Staff Skills & Attitudes	0.542***	-	0.425***	0.176**
	(0.426)***	-	(0.347)***	(0.139)**
	[0.675]***	-	[0.518]***	[0.296]***
Service Appropriateness	0.491***	0.425***	-	0.058
	(0.388)***	(0.347)***	-	-0.049
	[0.480]***	[0.518]***	-	[0.115]**
Service Planning	0.158**	0.176**	0.058	-
	(0.123)**	(0.139)**	-0.049	-
	[0.261]***	[0.296]***	[0.115]**	-
Age	0.005	-0.060	0.076	0.127
	(0.004)	(-0.048)	(0.060)	-0.103
	[0.045]	[-0.073]	[0.054]	[0.160]
Education	-0.103	-0.024	-0.105	-0.130
	(-0.078)	(-0.019)	(-0.090)	(-0.110)
	[-0.132]	[-0.077]	[-0.122]	[-0.143]
Visit Frequency	0.026	0.076	-0.019	0.033
	(0.019)	(0.063)	(-0.013)	(0.026)
	[0.060]	[0.107]	[0.006]	[0.043]**
Income	-0.215)***	-0.150**	-0.157**	-0.130
	(-0.169)***	(-0.123)**	(-0.126)**	(-0.108)
	[-0.203]*	[-0.091]*	[-0.127]*	[-0.180]
Enrolment Duration	0.090	0.026	0.183***	0.114
	(0.068)	(0.022)	(0.142)**	(0.087)
	[0.074]	[0.043]	[0.177]	[0.096]*

† Data outside parentheses are Spearman's correlations, whereas figures inside them represent Kendall's Tau b correlations. Polychoric or polyserial correlations are reported inside brackets.
*** p < 0.01 (2-tailed).
** p < 0.05 (2-tailed).
* p < 0.10 (2-tailed).

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