Psychometric properties of the Slovenian version of the cardiac depression scale

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Summary of results of factor analysis of the Slovenian version of the Cardiac Depression Scale after the extraction of six factors and oblimin rotation (factor loadings >0_30 and those <-0_30 are in boldface)_

Item no	Item no	Factor 1 Anhedonia	Factor 2 Sleep	Factor 3 Mood	Factor 4 Suicidal Ideation	Factor 5 Cognition	Factor 6 Fear
4	I get pleasure from life at present	0.632	-0.099	-0.023	-0.046	0.017	0.028
12	I feel in good spirits	0.521	-0.012	0.136	-0.068	0.159	-0.212
19	I gain just as much pleasure from my leisure activities as I used to	0.716	-0.076	0.018	0.081	0.116	-0.046
1	I have dropped many of my interests and activities	0.413	0.066	0.17	-0.002	-0.017	0.197
16	I get hardly anything done	0.417	0.059	0.022	-0.223	0.022	0.262
3	I can’t be bothered doing anything much	0.204	0.078	0.217	-0.035	0.149	0.036
6	I may not recover completely	0.443	-0.099	0.021	-0.192	-0.026	0.16
8	I am not the person I used to be	0.36	-0.174	0.275	-0.051	0.036	0.11
7	My sleep is restless and disturbed	0.108	-0.721	0.171	0.015	0.018	-0.033
9	I wake up in the early hours of the morning and cannot get back to sleep	0	-0.782	0.072	-0.034	-0.009	0.015
21	I become tearful more easily than before	0.088	-0.004	0.48	-0.098	-0.042	-0.033
22	I seem to get more easily irritated by others than before	-0.082	-0.118	0.827	0.04	0.003	0.027
24	I lose my temper more easily nowadays	-0.043	-0.037	0.765	-0.059	0.098	0.03
25	I feel frustrated	0.03	-0.062	0.684	0.028	0.084	0.06
10	I feel like I am living on borrowed time	0.275	-0.212	-0.06	-0.414	0.043	0.21
11	Dying is the best solution for me	0.007	0.049	0.107	-0.755	-0.011	-0.053
14	There is only misery in the future for me	0.027	-0.182	0.042	-0.6	0.149	0.047
2	My concentration is as good as it ever was	0.044	-0.046	0.018	0.059	0.649	0.05
15	My mind is as fast and alert as always	-0.028	0.072	0.045	-0.184	0.704	0.03
20	My memory is as good as it always was	-0.039	-0.023	0.007	0.079	0.795	-0.027
23	I feel independent and in control of my life	0.278	0.084	-0.033	-0.213	0.349	0.008
5	I am concerned about the uncertainty of my health	0.219	-0.189	0.1	0.186	0.112	0.416
13	The possibility of sudden death worries me	-0.058	-0.166	-0.052	-0.097	0.051	0.465
17	My problems are not yet over	0.196	-0.11	0.044	-0.192	0.128	0.395
18	Things which I regret about my life are bothering me	0.01	-0.07	0.172	-0.229	0.017	0.333
26	I am concerned about my capacity for sexual activity	0.028	0.105	0.11	0.055	0.026	0.367
	Cronbach’s alpha	0.84	0.82	0.76	0.82	0.76	0.66

Characteristics of samples_ Sample 1 comprises all patients included in the validation study, while Sample 2 comprises patients that meet the criteria for estimation of stability over time and concurrent validity study_

Variables	Sample 1 (n=272)	Sample 2 (n=184)
Gender
Male	192 (71%)	131 (71%)
Medical diagnosis
Coronary artery disease	7 (3%)	6 (3%)
Dysrhythmias	31 (11%)	23 (12.5%)
Valvular heart disease	14 (5%)	9 (5%)
Heart failure	14 (5%)	12 (6.5%)
Two or more heart diagnoses	206 (76%)	134 (73%)
ECA outcome
Normal coronary arteries	160 (59%)	111 (60%)
PCI	70 (26%)	49 (27%)
CABG	42 (15%)	24 (13%)

Goodness-of-fit measures for the confirmatory factor analyses of the Cardiac Depression Scale (N=272)_

Model	Χ2 (df)	RMSEA (90% CI)	CFI	TLI	SRMR
Baseline model (Hare and Davis, 1996)	494.84 (291)	0.051 (0.043–0.058)	0.991	0.990	0.060
6-factor model, 2 dimensions	475.19 (268)	0.053 (0.045–0.061)	0.991	0.990	0.059
6-factor model, 1 dimension	487.25 (269)	0.055 (0.047–0.062)	0.990	0.989	0.060