Table 3 Factors, items, and extracted factor loads of the factor analysis with equimax rotation
Factor | Items | Factor load |
|---|---|---|
Personal barriers | 1. Not admitting the disease and not being able to cope with it | 0.751 |
2. Lack of mental preparation for taking medicines | 0.693 | |
3. Not being informed of the fact that through using medicines you will experience a normal lifetime | 0.683 | |
4. Lack of awareness of the proper use of the medicines | 0.649 | |
5. Uncertainty about the effectiveness of the medicines | 0.630 | |
6. Considering life and health as unimportant | 0.600 | |
7. Feeling of hopelessness and depression | 0.490 | |
8. Lack of awareness of the risk of developing medicine resistance | 0.389 | |
Medical challenges | 9. Getting tired of constantly taking medicines | 0.477 |
10. Large amount of pills to be taken daily | 0.732 | |
11. Being lazy in taking medicines | 0.687 | |
12. Forgetting to take medication | 0.645 | |
13. Medicine’s side effects | 0.430 | |
14. Interference of the medications with the joy received by abusing alcohol and drugs | 0.363 | |
services quality | 15. Not having enough and proper access to consultation services | 0.730 |
16. Not receiving empathy from your physician | 0.658 | |
17. Waiting for a long time to receive medicine and visit a doctor | 0.516 | |
18. Lack of needed medicines in therapeutic centers | 0.597 | |
19. Insufficient guidance of medical staff | 0.454 | |
20. Bad behavior of medical staff | 0.365 | |
Financial problems | 21. The cost of traveling to therapy centers for medicines | 0.837 |
22. The cost of medical tests | 0.779 | |
Perceived support | 23. Not having someone to remind you when you should take the medicines | 0.845 |
24. Not having family care or supervision in taking medicines | 0.835 | |
25. Lack of family emotional support | 0.531 | |
26. Not having Emotional connection with other patients living with HIV | 0.406 | |
Disclosure of the disease | 27. Fear of the disclosure of the disease while taking medicines | 0.757 |
28. Bad feeling caused by discrimination in comparison with healthy people in the society | 0.707 | |
29. Fear of others seeing the medicines | 0.647 | |
30. Not going to take the medicines because your privacy is not preserved | 0.606 |