. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 3.

Published in final edited form as: J Compassionate Health Care. 2014 Oct 27;1:4. doi: 10.1186/s40639-014-0004-x

Table 4.

Correlation between total minutes spent in compassion meditation, expectations for improvement, and change scores^*

Variable	Total minutes spent in compassion meditation	Expectations for pain improvement	Expectations for quality of life improvement
Change in BPI pain severity	−0.15(0.64)	0.11(0.73)	−0.33(0.30)
Change in BPI pain interference	−0.26(0.42)	0.19(0.56)	−0.22(0.49)
Change in pain acceptance	0.48(0.12)	0.66(0.02)^§	0.48(0.12)
Change in PROMIS anger	−0.04(0.90)	−0.63(0.03)^§	−0.68(0.02)^§

Results reported as Pearson product–moment correlation coefficient (p-value).

^§

Significant correlation (p-value <0.05).