Measuring women's perceived ability to overcome barriers to healthcare seeking in Burkina Faso

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Results of the exploratory factor analysis on data from the Burkina Faso 2003 DHS

	1-factor solution*		2-factor solution*			3-factor solution*
	loading	(residual variance)	loading		(residual variance)	loading			(residual variance)
	1		1	2		1	2	3
Items
Distance to health services	0.896	(0.197)	-0.017	0.967	(0.083)	0.987	-0.025	-0.002	(0.044)
Having to take transportation	0.876	(0.233)	0.027	0.883	(0.194)	0.859	0.039	0.022	(0.214)
Getting permission to go	0.797	(0.364)	0.973	-0.011	(0.064)	-0.011	0.778	0.453	(0.059)
Getting money for treatment	0.626	(0.608)	0.531	0.21	(0.553)	0.346	0.592	-0.006	(0.396)
Having a female health worker	0.59	(0.652)	0.315	0.371	(0.637)	-0.013	-0.122	0.840	(0.332)
Going alone	0.672	(0.548)	0.379	0.403	(0.528)	0.063	0.006	0.798	(0.297)
Knowing where to go	0.784	(0.386)	0.688	0.203	(0.335)	0.090	0.471	0.509	(0.329)
Interfactor correlations
2 with 1			0.543			0.339
3 with 1						0.609
3 with 2							0.202
Model fit indices
Chi-square model (df)	732.428 (14)		370.129 (8)				4.899 (3)
p-value	< 0.001		< 0.001				0.179
CFI	0.939		0.969				1.000
TLI	0.909		0.920				0.999
RMSEA	0.119		0.112				0.013

df: degrees of freedom; CFI: comparative fit index (fit if > 0.96); TLI: Tucker-Lewis Index (fit if > 0.96); RMSEA: root mean square error of approximation (fit if ≤ 0.08)
*sampling weights were applied, and the results take into account the hierarchical structure of the data

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