Validation of the patient assessment of chronic illness care (PACIC) short form scale in heart transplant recipients: the international cross-sectional bright study

Table 3 Loadings and model fits (confirmatory factor analyses based on polychoric correlation matrix) for the PACIC English version, overall and by countries

		Country
Item	Whole English-speaking sample (n = 596)	USA (n = 337)	Canada (n = 110)	UK (n = 98)	Australia (n = 51)
1	0.65	0.63	0.57	0.82	0.61
2	0.39	0.45	0.49	0.29	0.34
3	0.82	0.80	0.81	0.84	0.81
4	0.76	0.66	0.74	0.78	0.78
5	0.78	0.77	0.72	0.81	0.87
6	0.74	0.64	0.74	0.79	0.90
7	0.90	0.85	0.89	0.88	0.96
8	0.91	0.87	0.89	0.95	0.96
9	0.79	0.77	0.84	0.76	0.94
10	0.78	0.69	0.74	0.83	0.83
11	0.78	0.76	0.72	0.77	0.70
RMSEA	0.079	0.092	0.075	0.022	0.087
CFI	0.985	0.969	0.984	0.999	0.993
TLI	0.981	0.962	0.980	0.999	0.991
WRMR	0.985	0.987	0.600	0.478	0.531
Alpha ordinal	0.930	0.920	0.920	0.930	0.920

RMSEA Root Mean Square Error of Approximation, CFI Comparative Fit Index, TLI The Tucker Lewis index, WRMR Weighted Root Mean Square Residual. Good Goodness of fit (GoF): RMSEA < 0.05, CFI > 0.97; TLI > 0.97; WRMR < 0.100; And acceptable GoF: RMSEA < 0.08, CFI > 0.95, TLI > 0.95.

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