Personal hygiene among military personnel: developing and testing a self-administered scale

Table 2 Descriptive analysis, item reliability, and factor loadings of the personal hygiene scale (n = 502)

Items	Mean	Standard deviation	Corrected item total correlation	Cronbach’s α (if item deleted)	Factor loadings
Q1	1.94	0.850	0.767	0.884	0.823
Q2	2.14	0.869	0.601	0.889	0.658
Q3	2.44	0.811	0.710	0.886	0.772
Q4	2.08	0.961	0.611	0.889	0.665
Q5	1.67	0.873	0.638	0.888	0.685
Q6	1.34	0.924	0.554	0.891	0.597
Q7	2.45	0.971	0.492	0.893	0.543
Q8	2.17	0.809	0.750	0.885	0.818
Q9	2.50	0.703	0.715	0.886	0.784
Q10	2.12	0.811	0.769	0.884	0.840
Q11	2.20	0.805	0.771	0.884	0.834
Q12	2.25	0.825	0.846	0.882	0.916
Q13	2.09	0.883	0.814	0.883	0.875
Q14	1.92	0.811	0.727	0.886	0.793
Q15	1.97	0.913	0.651	0.888	0.712
Q16	1.69	0.894	0.645	0.888	0.703
Q17	2.32	0.783	0.792	0.884	0.852
Q18	2.21	0.831	0.792	0.884	0.851
Q19	2.34	0.769	0.766	0.885	0.835
Q20	2.40	0.830	0.727	0.886	0.795
Q21	1.94	0.939	0.696	0.887	0.729

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