Validation of the Neonatal Satisfaction Survey (NSS-8) in six Norwegian neonatal intensive care units: a quantitative cross-sectional study

Table 4 Exploratory factor analysis and reliability testing results of the NSS-8^a

Factors	Name of each domain	Number of items	Eigenvalues			Internal reliability	Average variance extracted (AVE)
Factors	Name of each domain	Number of items	Total	% of variance	Cumulative %	Cronbach’s α	Average variance extracted (AVE)
F 1	Care and Treatment	22	9.150	17.942	17.942	0.94	0.464
F 2	Doctors	9	5.898	11.565	29.507	0.91	0.697
F 3	Visit	4	3.118	6.113	35.621	0.91	0.796
F 4	Information	4	2.006	3.933	39.554	0.81	0.679
F 5	Facility	4	1.944	3.811	43.364	0.72	0.552
F 6	Parent anxiety	3	1.835	3.597	46.962	0.74	0.665
F 7	Discharge	3	1.816	3.560	50.522	0.70	0.639
F 8	Siblings	2	1.402	2.749	53.271	0.72	0.736

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