Table 1. Determinants of Nurse Caring Behaviors (38 –item DNCB).

df1	Personal characteristics of the nurse	df 20	Participation in educational course about ‘caring' after graduation
df 2	Age of the nurse	df 21	Organized supervision on nursing care
df 3	Gender of the nurse a	df 22	Lack of participation of patients and their family in care planning
df 4	Believe in the need to deliver quality care	df 23	Changing the situation from educational to clinical
df 5	Sense of responsibility	df 24	Lack of regulations that clearly describe duties of nurses
df 6	Job experience	df 25	Lack of clear definition of care and caring
df 7	Individual problems of the nurse e.g. financial, physical, or psychosocial	df 26	Workload and lack of enough time
df 8	Level of stress and anxiety of the nurse	df 27	Interest in nursing profession
df 9	Family background and cultural context in which the nurse has been treated	df 28	Job satisfaction
df 10	Views of the nurse regarding patients' rights	df 29	Self-respect and respect to nursing profession
df 11	Religious believes of the nurse a	df 30	Lack of familiarity with facts in nursing profession
df 12	Time allocated to direct care	df 31	Lack of motivation to be involved in nursing care
df 13	Satisfaction with salary	df 32	Theoretical education during nursing course
df 14	Feeling of being a valuable employee in the system	df 33	Inadequacy of clinical training
df 15	The quality of relationship with the managers	df 34	Behavior and views of instructors during school education
df 16	Demand of the patient or system	df 35	Age of the patient
df 17	Type of health setting (governmental or private)	df 36	Gender of the patient
df 18	Sense of job security	df 37	The way the patients interact with nurses
df 19	Behaviors of colleagues and other nurses a	df 38	Medical Diagnosis of the patient

These three items were omitted from final version because of item correlation of greater than 0.70