3.
Average scores for each dimension of attitude towards cancer pain management for the patients and caregivers
| Dimension | Patient | Caregiver | |||
Score (
±s)
|
Rank | Score (
±s)
|
Rank | ||
| Tolerance | 3.83±0.96 | 1 | 3.74±0.88 | 1 | |
| Use of analgesics as needed (p.r.n.) | 3.73±1.01 | 2 | 3.51±0.81 | 2 | |
| Addiction | 3.44±1.05 | 3 | 3.43±1.07 | 3 | |
| Disease progression | 3.28±1.26 | 4 | 3.27±1.18 | 4 | |
| Distraction of physicians | 3.16±1.07 | 5 | 3.01±1.06 | 6 | |
| Side effects | 2.99±0.68 | 6 | 3.22±0.65 | 5 | |
| Desire to be good | 2.22±1.04 | 7 | 2.38±1.03 | 7 | |
| Fatalism | 2.08±0.81 | 8 | 2.31±0.79 | 8 | |
| Religious fatalism | 1.86±1.00 | 9 | 2.02±0.99 | 9 | |