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. 2011 Nov 10;5:29. doi: 10.1186/1752-4458-5-29

Table 7.

Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) area under the curve (AUC) for dichotomised perceived coercion, perceived procedural justice and impact of the hearing as predicted by patients' ratings of Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) and Interpersonal Trust in Physician (ITP) six months before the hearing (T1), null hypothesis: true area under the curve = 0.5.

AUC 95% CI P
Lower bound Upper bound

Dependent variable: Patient's Perceived Coercion (dichotomised)

Patient rates consultant psychiatrist

WAI 0.554 0.412 0.696 NS

ITP 0.625 0.485 0.764 NS

Patient rates primary nurse

WAI 0.529 0.382 0.676 NS

ITP 0.625 0.485 0.764 NS

Patient rates doctors in general

ITP 0.538 0.392 0.885 NS

Dependent variable: Patient's perceive procedural justice re legal actors in hearing (dichotomised)

Patient rates consultant psychiatrist

WAI 0.828 0.696 0.960 < 0.001

ITP 0.857 0.762 0.952 < 0.001

Patient rates primary nurse

WAI 0.732 0.578 0.886 0.007

ITP 0.795 0.649 0.941 0.001

Patient rates doctors in general

ITP 0.659 0.487 0.830 NS

Dependent variable: Patients' perceived procedural justice re consultant psychiatrist's role in hearing (dichotomised)

Patient rates consultant psychiatrist

WAI 0.772 0.616 0.928 0.004

ITP 0.815 0.705 0.925 0.001

Patient rates primary nurse

WAI 0.798 0.628 0.968 0.002

ITP 0.795 0.649 0.941 0.001

Patient rates doctors in general

ITP 0.659 0.487 0.830 NS

Dependent variable: Patients' perceived impact of the hearing (dichotomised)

Patient rates consultant psychiatrist

WAI 0.697 0.508 0.886 0.038

ITP 0.735 0.548 0.923 0.013

Patient rates primary nurse

WAI 0.779 0.605 0.953 0.003

ITP 0.830 0.703 0.957 0.001

Patient rates doctors in general

ITP 0.656 0.475 0.837 NS

n = 75. Means and standard deviations.