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. 2017 Jul 17;17:97. doi: 10.1186/s12871-017-0388-1

Table 7.

The regretion analysis of socio-demographic data on the communication towards attitude questionaire of the patients’ relatives according to the informing, empathy and trust sub-dimensions

INFORMING EMPATHY TRUST
β p β p β p
Descriptions of physicians
 Advisor −2.572 0.041
 Friend 2.078 0.016
 Legal-technical −1.825 0.016
 Consultant −2.504 0.002
 Advisor
The specialties of the ICU physicians
 Pulmonologist
 Cardiovascular surgery −2.864 <0.001
 Internal medicine 4.971 <0.001 −3.247 <0.001
How close of the relative being informed by the physician was to the patient
 Children 3.157 0.010 1.498 0.002
The duration of how long the ICU physicians spent speaking to patient relatives
 1–2 min −2.204 0.037 −3.878 <0.001 −2.260
 5–10 min 0.002
The ICU physician characteristics that were important to patient relatives
 Provision of medical support
  No −2.493 0.036
 Confidence
  No
 Provision of medical support
  No −1.841 0.012 −2.418 0.003

For Informing AIC (akaike information criterion) =260.08, Accuracy 30%; Empathy AIC = 243.32, Accuracy 37.2%; Trust AIC = 170.80, Accuracy 45.7%

The results found statistical difference in group was shown as italicize data