Development of a short-form Chinese health literacy scale for low salt consumption (CHLSalt-22) and its validation among hypertensive patients

Table 4 Convergent validity and discriminant validity of the CHLSalt-22

Factor	CR	AVE	F1	F2	F3	F4	F5	F6	F7
F1	0.826	0.615	0.784
F2	0.842	0.577	0.516^**	0.760
F3	0.731	0.476	0.323^**	0.540^**	0.690
F4	0.799	0.570	0.396^**	0.557^**	0.790^**	0.755
F5	0.828	0.637	0.420^**	0.495^**	0.418^**	0.450^**	0.798
F6	0.700	0.441	0.148^**	0.289^**	0.192^**	0.173^**	0.347^**	0.664
F7	0.787	0.556	0.627^**	0.542^**	0.338^**	0.372^**	0.468^**	0.276^**	0.746

CR Composite reliability, AVE Average variance extract; **: P < 0.01; *: P < 0.05
The bold numbers on the diagonal lines of the table are the square root of the extraction amount of the mean-variance of the corresponding dimensions, and the non-diagonal numbers are the inter-dimensional correlation coefficients

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