Table 3.

Factor Pattern Loadings for Group-Based Medical Mistrust Scale (GBMMS) Items

Scale Items	English Sample		Spanish Sample
	Factor Pattern Loading		Factor Pattern Loading
	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 1	Factor 2
1. Doctors and health care workers sometimes hide information from patients who belong to my ethnic group.	0.611^{^‡}	−0.187	0.594^{^‡}	−0.049
2. Doctors have the best interests of people of my ethnic group in mind.^{^†}	−0.153	0.525^{^‡}	−0.107	0.634^{^‡}
3. People of my ethnic group should not confide in doctors and health care workers because it will be used against them.	0.879^{^‡}	0.143	0.748^{^‡}	−0.025
4. People of my ethnic group should be suspicious of information from doctors and health care workers.	0.893^{^‡}	0.041	0.767^{^‡}	−0.127
5. People of my ethnic group cannot trust doctors and health care workers.	0.853^{^‡}	−0.025	0.860^{^‡}	0.071
6. People of my ethnic group should be suspicious of modern medicine.	0.826^{^‡}	0.029	0.809^{^‡}	0.052
7. Doctors and health care workers treat people of my ethnic group like ‘‘guinea pigs.’’	0.626^{^‡}	−0.305	0.734^{^‡}	−0.141
8. People of my ethnic group receive the same medical care from doctors and health care workers as people from other groups.^{^†}	0.104	0.864^{^‡}	0.02	0.820^{^‡}
9. Doctors and health care workers do not take the medical complaints of people of my ethnic group seriously.	0.370	−0.486^{^‡}	0.551^{^‡}	0.186
10. People of my ethnic group are treated the same as people of other groups by doctors and health care workers.^{^†}	0.064	0.880	−0.025	0.874^{^‡}
11. In most hospitals, people of different ethnic groups receive the same kind of care.^{^†}	0.004	0.828^{^‡}	0.007	0.796^{^‡}
12. I have personally been treated poorly or unfairly by doctors or health care workers because of my ethnicity.	0.355	−0.397	0.655^{^‡}	−0.28

↵† Items are reverse coded.
↵‡ Factor loadings above 0.4.