Development of Self-Management Scale for Kidney Transplant Recipients, Including Management of Post-Transplantation Chronic Kidney Disease

Table 3

Results of item scaling and reliability tests (𝑁=239).

	No. of; items	Score; range	Mean ± SD	Cronbach's 𝛼	Range of item correlations		Item scaling tests
					Item internal consistency	Item discriminant validity	Success/total	Scaling success rate (%)
Factor 1: Self-monitoring	6	6–24	15.16±4.94	0.87	0.50–0.79	0.12–0.49	24/24	100
Factor 2: Self-care behavior in daily living	7	7–28	21.38±3.53	0.80	0.41–0.61	0.16–0.39	28/28	100
Factor 3: Early detecting and coping with abnormalities after kidney transplantation	4	4–16	12.80±2.48	0.77	0.45–0.67	0.23–0.51	15/16	93.8
Factor 4: Stress management	3	3–12	8.34±2.04	0.61	0.38–0.44	0.13–0.35	12/12	100