Psychological impact of COVID-19 on medical care workers in China

Table 3 Factor loadings of perceived threat items among medical care workers (n = 863)

Perceived threat (Items)	Factor1	Factor 2	Factor 3
Perceived threat (Items)	Stigmatization /distancing	Fears of infection	High-risk job
Afraid of being infected by COVID-19	-0.057	0.704	0.390
Anxious to be shifted to the ward for COVID-19	0.213	0.848	0.057
Worried about being quarantined or isolated	0.138	0.860	0.122
My job puts me at a high risk of being infected	0.119	0.297	0.820
My close contacts are at high risk of being infected	0.182	0.090	0.888
Friends and relatives are worried to be infected by me	0.627	0.110	0.498
I’m distanced by others due to my job	0.916	0.142	0.113
I’m stigmatized by others due to my job	0.901	0.087	0.079
Eigenvalue	2.158	2.091	1.899
Cumulative % of variance explained	26.971	53.111	76.845
Cronbach’s alpha	0.812	0.780	0.793

Exploratory factor analysis, using principle component analysis for factor extraction (with varimax rotation)
Factor 1–3 addressed threat due to stigmatization/distancing, fears of infection and high-risk job

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