Initial Development and Validation of a Transition Readiness Scale for Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Table 2

Factorial weights and coefficients of discrimination for adolescents.

		Factor 1. Knowledge	Factor 3. Medical care	Factor 2. Self-efficacy
Q1	I know the important things about my illness	0.719	0.081	0.018
Q3	I recognize when my symptoms indicate that I need to go and see my doctor	0.825	0.218	-0.016
Q4	I am interested in and read information about my illness	0.233	0.601	0.193
Q8	I understand what symptoms are part of my illness	0.725	0.163	0.188
Q18	I know when I should turn to the medical staff for help	0.784	0.038	0.211
Q2	I make sure to take my medications on my own	0.119	0.672	0.203
Q5	I set my doctors’ appointments on my own	0.108	0.186	0.598
Q6	I’m comfortable going to the gastroenterology clinic by myself	0.205	0.279	0.785
Q9	I do not need my parents help to take care of my illness	0.033	-0.187	0.756
Q13	I feel confident going to the doctor on my own	0.243	0.134	0.812
Q15	I know how to explain my symptoms to my doctor	0.581	0.056	0.249
Q20	I know how to go to the doctor when I need help	0.601	0.261	0.172
Q25	I can take care of my health on my own	0.108	-0.063	0.564
Q10	I believe that my doctors are helping to keep me healthy	0.110	0.726	0.052
Q16	I understand that I should follow the doctor’s instructions about how to take my medication	0.063	0.788	-0.054
Q24	I listen to and apply what the doctors tell me	0.153	0.749	-0.118
	Eigen values	4.892	2.301	1.712
	Cumulative % of explained variance	20.4	38.2	55.6
	Cronbach’s per factor	0.840	0.785	0.774
	Cronbach’s for all 16 items	0.840

Standardized and corrected for the number of items within the scale.