Worries of Pregnant Women: Testing the Farsi Cambridge Worry Scale

Table 3

The Farsi Cambridge Worry Scale four factors and factor loadings (22-item version).

Items	Factors loading				Communality
	Sociomedical	Health of mother & relationships	Health of the baby	Socioeconomic
Sociomedical
() Giving birth	0.832				0.692
() Going to hospital	0.711				0.594
() Internal examinations	0.699				0.534
() Crowded delivery ward	0.679				0.569
() Not possible to have someone in delivery ward	0.642				0.575
() Whether midwives provide good care in labor	0.671				0.485
() Coping with the new baby	0.497				0.392
() The possibility of not having a spontaneous labor	0.484		0.376		0.491
() Whether your husband will be with you at the time of admission to labor	0.463				0.397
Health of mother/others & relationships
() Your relationship with your family and friends		0.747			0.661
() Your relationship with your husband		0.742			0.733
() The health of someone close to you		0.484			0.574
() Your own health		0.430	0.301	0.304	0.495
Health of the baby
(16) Possibility of miscarriage			0.805		0.640
() The possibility of fetal death, disease, or anomaly			0.786		0.669
() Probability of going into labor too early			0.657		0.503
Socioeconomic
() Your housing				0.607	0.352
() Money problems				0.625	0.556
() Problems with the law				0.608	0.484
() Employment problems				0.540	0.404
() Unwanted or unplanned pregnancy				0.525	0.243
() Baby gender				0.399	0.189
Eigenvalue	6.5	2.2	1.5	1.2	—
Variance %	29.5	9.8	6.7	5.5	—

Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test = 0.831 and Bartlett’s test = 1559 (); total variance explained: 51.5%.