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

Table 4 Loadings and model fits (confirmatory factor analyses based on polychoric correlation matrix) by language groups

Item	English (n = 596)	French (n = 189)	German (n = 106)	Dutch (n = 51)	Spanish (n = 223)	Italian (n = 114)	Portuguese (n = 99)
1	0.65	0.61	0.63	0.70	0.30	0.25	0.49
2	0.39	0.47	0.44	0.58	0.73	0.31	0.47
3	0.82	0.79	0.74	0.89	0.77	0.71	0.68
4	0.76	0.69	0.57	0.81	0.80	0.64	0.59
5	0.78	0.68	0.70	0.77	0.97	0.63	0.74
6	0.74	0.74	0.76	0.40	0.97	0.56	0.74
7	0.9	0.87	0.84	0.90	0.76	0.65	0.84
8	0.91	0.95	0.87	0.90	0.81	0.84	0.83
9	0.79	0.81	0.74	0.70	0.75	0.71	0.67
10	0.78	0.76	0.69	0.62	0.76	0.48	0.69
11	0.78	0.58	0.71	0.77	0.80	0.68	0.60
RMSEA	0.079	0.074	0.070	0.110	0.169	0.075	0.087
CFI	0.985	0.984	0.982	0.971	0.970	0.948	0.947
TLI	0.981	0.980	0.977	0.964	0.962	0.934	0.933
WRMR	0.985	0.719	0.625	0.664	1.879	0.778	0.719
Alpha ordinal	0.930	0.920	0.900	0.890	0.900	0.810	0.880

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 < 1.00; And acceptable GoF: RMSEA < 0.08, CFI > 0.95, TLI > 0.95.

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