Table 4 Component matrix
From: Patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionalism—a Romanian experience
Component Matrixa | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Component | |||
1 | 2 | 3 | |
21. You cannot sleep | 0.97 | ||
26. You see your family and friends only for short periods of time | 0.97 | ||
20. You are disturbed by nurses/doctors when sleeping | 0.97 | ||
23. You are experiencing pain | 0.96 | ||
22. The light is on all the time | 0.95 | ||
16. You hear the sounds and alarms from medical devices and they bother you | 0.95 | ||
17. The doctors and nurses talk too loudly (noise in the department) | 0.95 | ||
11. You do not know how long you will be staying in intensive care | 0.91 | ||
12. You are restricted by tubes or perfusions | 0.85 | ||
8. The temperature in the room you are hospitalized in is too low or too high | −0.82 | ||
7. The medical staff uses words you do not understand | −0.80 | ||
24. You have no privacy | 0.77 | ||
9. You are disturbed by the reactions of the patients around you | −0.77 | ||
19. You feel disoriented | 0.73 | ||
15. You feel that nurses focus more on the devices than on you | 0.73 | ||
18. You have tubes in your nose or mouth | 0.72 | ||
28. You are afraid of death | 0.71 | ||
27. You cannot communicate | 0.71 | ||
25. You hear people talking about you | 0.68 | ||
29. You are afraid of transmissible diseases | 0.63 | ||
30. Your consent for treatment was not obtained | −0.50 | ||
4. You are aware of the smells around you | 0.62 | ||
5. You are in a mixed ward (men and women) | 0.66 | ||
6. You are seen as an object | 0.59 | ||
13. You are thirsty or hungry | 0.48 | ||
1. The procedures and treatments applied are not explained to you | 0.40 | ||
3. You do not know when you are scheduled for certain procedures | 0.75 | ||
2. Previously unknown members of the medical staff do not introduce themselves to patients | 0.68 | ||