Table 2 Factors extracted from the CDS by principal components analysis with varimax rotation ( N = 152)
From: Psychometric properties of the cardiac depression scale in patients with coronary heart disease
Item number | Items | Mood | Anhedonia | Cognition | Fear | Sleep | Suicide |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
13 | The possibility of sudden death worries me (fear) | .554 | .031 | ||||
18 | Things which i regret most about my life are bothering me (mood) | .592 | |||||
21 | I become tearful more easily than before (mood) | .812 | |||||
22 | I seem to get more easily irritated by others than before (anhedonia) | .826 | .060 | ||||
24 | I lose my temper more easily nowadays (mood) | .659 | |||||
25 | I feel frustrated (mood) | .580 | |||||
4R | I get pleasure from life at present (anhedonia) | .568 | |||||
23R | I feel independent and control in my life (anhedonia) | .487 | |||||
1 | I have dropped many of my interests and activities (anhedonia) | .593 | |||||
3 | I can’t be bothered doing anything much (anhedonia) | .551 | |||||
8 | I am not the person i used to be (anhedonia) | .409 | |||||
16 | I get hardly anything done (anhedonia) | .412 | |||||
15R | My mind is as fast and alert as always (cognition) | .727 | |||||
19R | I gain as much pleasure from leisure activities as i used to (anhedonia) | .312 | .620 | ||||
20R | My memory is as good as it always was (cognition) | .675 | |||||
2R | My concentration is as good as it ever was (cognition) | .686 | |||||
5 | I am concerned about the uncertainty of my health (fear) | .564 | |||||
17 | My problems are not yet over (fear) | .651 | |||||
6 | I may not recover properly (fear) | .781 | |||||
7 | My sleep is restless and disturbed (sleep) | .635 | |||||
9 | I wake up in the early hours of the morning and cannot get back to sleep (sleep) | .754 | |||||
12R | I feel in good spirits (suicide) | .577 | |||||
26 | I am concerned about my capacity for sexual activity (fear) | .248 | .573 | ||||
10 | I feel like im living on borrowed time (fear) | .183 | .433 | ||||
11 | Dying is the best solution for me (suicide) | .747 | .139 | ||||
14 | There is only misery in the future for me (suicide) | .663 | .252 | ||||
Cronbach’s alpha | .77 | .82 | .66 | .74 | .80 | .62 |