Validation of the German version of the Family Reported Outcome Measure (FROM-16) to assess the impact of disease on the partner or family member

Table 2 Structure matrix of the German FROM-16 showing the loading of each item onto the two factors

Item number	Item description	Exploratory Factor Analysis—English questionnaire (Golics et al. 2014)		Exploratory Factor Analysis—German questionnaire		Equivalent 2-factor Confirmatory Factor Analysis—German questionnaire
Item number	Item description	Emotional	Personal and social life	Emotional	Personal and social life	Beta (standardized parameter estimates)
Emotional domain
1	I feel worried	0.696	–	0.670	0.402	0.524
2	I feel angry	0.766	0.531	0.606	0.314	0.590
3	I feel sad	0.861	0.434	0.753	0.330	0.650
4	I feel frustrated	0.814	0.508	0.662	0.345	0.611
5	It is difficult to find someone to talk to	0.613	0.519	0.512	-0.036	0.268
6	Caring for my family member is difficult	0.461	0.503	0.435	0.579	0.637
Personal and social life domain
7	It is hard to find time for myself	0.466	0.697	0.351	0.782	0.632
8	My every day travel is affected	0.575	0.743	0.230	0.717	0.552
9	My eating habits are affected	0.446	0.761	0.306	0.652	0.583
10	My family activities are affected	–	0.761	0.582	0.503	0.643
11	I experience problems with going on holiday	–	0.700	0.426	0.497	0.524
12	My sex life is affected	0.530	0.687	0.313	0.351	0.252
13	My work or study is affected	0.437	0.769	-0.067	0.715	0.463
14	My relationships with other family members are affected	0.517	0.723	0.463	0.524	0.554
15	My family expenses are increased	–	0.768	0.312	0.703	0.526
16	My sleep is affected	0.540	0.640	0.544	0.549	0.585

Extraction method: Principal component analysis. Rotation method: Oblimin with Kaiser Normalization

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