For and against Organ Donation and Transplantation: Intricate Facilitators and Barriers in Organ Donation Perceived by German Nurses and Doctors

Table 4

Mean values, reliability, and factor analysis of item addressing stress barriers in the care of potential donors with brain death.

Factors and items	Mean value (score 1–4)	SD	Corrected item-total correlation	Alpha if item is deleted ()	Loading factor 1	Loading factor 2
⁢Factor 1: stress barriers: medical reasons (eigenvalue 2.4; 41% explained variance; alpha = .74)
Spinal or vegetative reflexes, such as lazarus signs	2.56	0.87	.473	.640	.801
Continuation of intensive care, despite established brain death	2.29	0.92	.559	.607	.709	.326
Acceptance of brain death as death of a human being	2.02	0.83	.607	.595	.686	.427
Care for relatives	3.03	0.81	.376	.671	.654
Factor 2: stress barriers: team reasons (eigenvalue 1.0; 17% explained variance; alpha = .33)
Overwork/having to take the position of a colleague who does not take part in ODT	2.12	0.82	2.74	.703		.867
Overwork/having to take the position of a colleague who does not take part in ODT	2.42	0.86	.285	.699		.565

Extraction of the main components (eigenvalue > 1); varimax rotation with Kaiser’s normalization.
Rotation is converged in 3 iterations. Both factors explain 57% of variance.
Scores range from 1 (agreement) to 4 (disagreement).
Scale is not suited to be used.