The experience of admission to psychiatric hospital among Chinese adult patients in Hong Kong

BMC Psychiatry

Table 1 Factor loading of C-AES.

		Varimax-rotated component loadings
Items		Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3
	Factor 1 (Negative pressure scale, Cronbach's α = 0.88 )
6	Someone threatened me to get me to come into the hospital	0.77
10	I was threatened with commitment	0.75
2	People tried to force me to come into the hospital.	0.75
8	Someone physically tried to make me come into the hospital	0.70
4	I chose to come into the hospital	0.69
11	They said they would make me come into the hospital	0.69
7	It was my idea to come into the hospital	0.60
	Factor 2 (Process exclusion scale, Cronbach's α = 0.77 )
5	I got to say what I wanted about coming into the hospital		0.77
3	I had enough of a chance to say whether I wanted to come into the hospital		0.76
9	No one seemed to want to know whether I wanted to come into the hospital		0.72
13	My opinion about coming into the hospital didn't matter		0.70
	Factor 3 (Perceived coercion scale, Cronbach's α = 0.74 )
14	I had a lot of control over whether I went into the hospital			0.83
15	I had more influence than anyone else on whether I came into the hospital			0.77
1	I felt free to do what I wanted about coming into the hospital			0.67
Eigenvalues (Varimax-rotated)		3.51	2.51	2.35
Percentage of variance (Varimax-rotated)		27.12	17.95	16.76

Item 12 was omitted. Factors with eigenvalues > 1 were retained. Factor loadings < 0.5 were omitted. Cronbach's α for each subscale provided for reference.

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