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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nurs Res. 2014 Jan-Feb;63(1):3–13. doi: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000012

Table 4.

Percent Agreement by Observation and Mean Item Agreement

Behaviors Percent Agreement Mean Item Agreement

Positive Nurse Observation
1 2 3 4
Sharing 100 100 100 100 100
Praising 60 80 80 100 80
Visual Contact 60 100 100 80 85
Brief Contact 100 80 80 80 85
Brief Contact with Speech 100 80 80 80 85
Proximity 100 100 80 100 95
Proximity with Speech 80 100 100 100 95
Physical Contact 100 60 100 100 90
Social Politeness 80 80 100 80 85
Preparatory Information 80 80 100 80 85
Expanded Preparatory Information 100 80 60 80 80
Preparatory Information with Delay Expanded Preparatory Information 100 80 80 100 90
Expanded Preparatory information with Delay 100 60 100 80 85
Smiling 80 100 100 100 95
Modeling 100 100 100 100 100
Laughing 60 100 100 100 90
Augmenting 80 100 60 60 75

Negative Nurse
Disapproving 100 100 100 100 100
Yelling 100 100 100 100 100
Ignoring 100 100 100 100 100

Positive Patient
Acceptance 100 60 100 100 90
Following Instructions 100 80 80 80 85
Full Visual Contact 80 100 60 80 80
Partial Visual Contact 100 100 40 20 65
Physical Contact 100 100 100 100 100
Requests 60 100 100 100 90
Smiling 80 100 100 100 95
Maintaining Attention 80 100 60 100 85
Laughing 60 100 100 100 90
Praise 100 100 100 100 100

Negative Patient
Disagreement 100 100 100 80 95
Disgust 80 100 100 80 90
Ignoring 100 80 100 100 95