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. 2014 Jan 5;16(1):e12686. doi: 10.5812/ircmj.12868

Table 4. Comparison of Nurses and Families Perspective About the Outcomes of Assigning the Affairs to Patient’s Family .

Outcomes Agreed Nurses, n = 84 Agreed Family, n = 253 P value Odds Ratio Confidence Interval
No. % No. % Low Upper
Not correctly performing the assigned duty 34 26.9 68 26.9 0.019 0.541 0.322 0.906
Duplication 26 22.2 56 22.2 0.107 0.637 0.368 1.104
Decreasing the nurse value 16 13.8 35 13.8 0.248 0.682 0.365 2.094
Family no satisfaction from the patient hospitalization in hospital 15 19.4 49 19.4 0.760 1.105 0.583 2.094
Damage to patient’s health 11 29.6 75 29.6 0.003 2.796 1.404 5.569
Request for discharge before the determined time 8 19 48 19 0.044 2.224 1.006 4.918
Speeding up the patient-related affairs 53 43.9 111 43.9 0.002 0.457 0.275 0.760
Respect for patient privacy and religious issues 31 36.4 92 36.4 0.929 0.977 0.580 1.630
The patient’s feeling of satisfaction from the presence of family 47 69.6 176 69.6 0.090 1.554 0.932 2.592
Participation and interaction between nurse and patient’s family 43 42.3 97 42.3 0.155 0.699 0.426 1.147
The feeling of being useful as the patient’s family 24 49.4 125 49.4 0.001 2.441 2.432 4.163
Increasing the patient’s costs 1 1.2 33 13 0.002 12.450 1.676 92.491
Physical and verbal confrontation with nurse 9 10.7 28 11.1 0.929 1.037 0.468 2.297
Intervention in treatment 19 22.6 39 15.4 0.130 0.623 0.337 1.153
Causing problem for patient’s health 7 8.3 65 25.7 0.001 3.803 1.669 8.666
Increasing the social respect for nurse personnel 7 8.3 68 26.9 0.999 4.043 1.777 9.200