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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 3.
Published in final edited form as: Res Nurs Health. 2009 Jun;32(3):260–273. doi: 10.1002/nur.20320

Table 4.

Comparisons of Acceptability Measures by Group

T2 T3
Control
(M ± SD)		 SPIRIT
(M ± SD)		 Control
(M ± SD)		 SPIRIT
(M ± SD)
Quality of Patient-Clinician
(or Interventionist)
Communication about End-
of-Life Care
    Patient 8.83 ± 3.55 11.18 ± 1.12 7.52 ± 3.66 11.30 ± 1.41
    Surrogate 6.79 ± 3.57 11.68 ± 0.55 10.22 ± 2.49 11.58 ± 0.72
Quality of Interaction with
Clinician (or
Interventionist)a
    Patient 7.29 ± 3.42 5.56 ± 0.90 7.29 ± 2.65 5.68 ± 0.77
    Surrogate 7.12 ± 3.39 5.39 ± 0.96 6.93 ± 3.04 5.46 ± 0.59
a

Lower scores indicate better interactions.