Worries and Concerns among Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Followed Prospectively over One Year

Table 4

Factor analysis of the RFIPC using maximum likelihood method.

		Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 4	Factor 5	Factor 6
	Impact of disease
(1)	Financial difficulties	0.59
(2)	Pain or suffering	0.60
(3)	Ability to achieve full potential	0.68
(4)	Loss of bowel control	0.46
(9)	Feeling alone	0.47
(10)	Feeling out of control	0.53
(19)	Energy level	0.71
	Expectancy
(5)	Developing cancer		0.72
(6)	Dying early		0.82
(7)	Being a burden on others		0.48
(14)	Passing the disease to your children		0.50
	Treatment
(23)	Having access to quality medical care			0.66
(24)	Uncertain nature of my disease			0.73
(25)	Effects of medication			0.74
	Intimacy
(12)	Ability to perform sexually				0.63
(21)	Intimacy				0.86
(22)	Loss of sexual drive				0.64
	Stigma
(11)	Feeling dirty or smelly					0.74
(18)	Producing unpleasant odors					0.77
(15)	Being treated as different					0.41
	Complications
(16)	Having surgery						0.61
(17)	Having an ostomy bag						0.92
(8)	Attractiveness	(0.34)
(13)	Ability to have children				(0.16)
(20)	Feelings about my body	(0.39)