Table 3.

Patient Evaluation of Care and Self-Management, by Clinician Empathy ¹

	EMPATHY TERTILE 2
	Middle 3 OR (95% CI)	High 3 OR (95%CI)
Clinician communication rating, above median	1.22 (0.74–2.01)	0.88 (0.53–1.47)
Overall satisfaction, excellent	1.43 (0.78–2.58)	0.95 (0.52–1.71)
Medication Self-efficacy, highest score	1.80 (1.16–2.80)**	2.13 (1.37–3.32)**

¹Data from 4 sites;

^*p<0.05,

^**p<0.01,

^***p<0.001

²p-values and odds ratios (OR) obtained using logistic regression and GEE to account for clustering of patients within clinicians, adjusting for site. Higher values (greater than 1) indicate a greater likelihood of having the outcome (i.e. reporting the highest level of medication self-efficacy versus less-than-highest levels) with an increase in clinician empathy score.

³Low is reference category