25 | Difficulties enjoying patient’s hobbies, recreations and social activities as before because of his/her disease and treatment | 0.093 | 0.844 | −0.042 | |
26 | Managing patient’s and your properties | −0.038 | 0.834 | 0.041 | |
27 | Patient’s difficulties performing his/her responsibilities in the house | 0.028 | 0.828 | 0.045 | |
28 | Medical and living expenses while receiving treatment | 0.034 | 0.822 | −0.073 | |
29 | Difficulties in having sufficient support available to you (e.g., assistance and public service from people around you) | 0.120 | 0.808 | −0.054 | |
30 | Planning patient’s own and your future life | 0.103 | 0.786 | −0.025 | |
31 | Taking care of family (e.g., childrearing, nursing parents and spouse) | 0.099 | 0.765 | 0.009 | |
32 | Insufficient information concerning patient’s social welfare services (e.g., nursing care insurance program, welfare system for the disabled) | 0.182 | 0.744 | −0.064 | |
33 | Patient’s having no one with a similar experience to talk to | 0.230 | 0.643 | 0.051 | |
34 | Relationship and communication with patient’s friends and persons close to patient | 0.144 | 0.642 | 0.146 | |
35 | Changes of patient’s figure and appearance(e.g., increasing and decreasing of weight) | 0.114 | 0.630 | 0.117 | |
36 | Relationship and communication with patient’s neighbors | 0.102 | 0.618 | 0.197 | |
37 | Using financial services(e.g., loans, health care and life insurance) | 0.051 | 0.608 | 0.160 | |
38 | Having no one and place to go for advice regarding patient’s disease and medical treatment life | 0.298 | 0.608 | 0.016 | |
39 | Relationship and communication with your spouse | 0.156 | 0.599 | 0.143 | |
40 | Talking about patients disease with people in the patient’s workplace and other social places | 0.107 | 0.571 | 0.258 | |
41 | Patient’s being socially isolated | 0.231 | 0.559 | 0.123 | |
42 | Insufficient information concerning living supports for patient receiving cancer \treatment (e.g., medical wig, elastic stockings ,wheelchair, adjustable medical bed) | 0.196 | 0.516 | 0.176 | |
43 | Difficulties in having enough understanding and cooperation from patient’s family regarding patient’s disease and treatment | 0.255 | 0.505 | 0.182 | |
44 | Talking about patient’s disease with patient | 0.237 | 0.502 | 0.179 | |
45 | Being excessively concerned about patient by you | 0.151 | 0.499 | 0.260 | |
46 | Patient’s taking care of domestic chores (e.g. cleaning, watching, cooking, grocery shopping) | 0.084 | 0.492 | 0.333 | |
47 | Patient’s looking after himself/herself (e.g., eating, bathing, excreting, dressing) | 0.307 | 0.477 | 0.104 | |
48 | Being demoted and assigned a lower position in the patient’s workplace | −0.010 | −0.033 | 0.996 | |
49 | Difficulties in getting a promotion and advancing patient’s career | −0.005 | −0.046 | 0.990 | |
50 | Being urged to resign and lose patient’s job | −0.003 | 0.018 | 0.906 | |
51 | Difficulty with asking for time off from patient’s work for medical treatment (or school if patient is a student) | 0.029 | 0.135 | 0.781 | |
52 | Issues with patient’s pregnancy and childbirth | 0.063 | 0.054 | 0.732 | |
53 | Difficulty with returning and maintaining to patient’s work (or education if he/she is a student) | 0.005 | 0.321 | 0.583 | |
54 | Matters concerning your sexual life | 0.023 | 0.250 | 0.562 | |
Inter-factor correlation | Factor 1 | ||||
Factor 2 | 0.898** | ||||
Factor 3 | 0.733** | 0.814** | |||