Table 2.

Characteristics of relatives who did or did not add free-text comments to the Family Collaboration Scale questionnaire

	Added comments (n = 79)	n	No comments (n = 101)	n	P-value*
Age, years, mean	60.3	78	60.8	98	0.998
Sex, Female, %	67.5	77	66.0	100	0.830
Relationship with patient, %
Spouse	22.8	79	27.7	101	0.749
Offspring	62.0	79	58.4	101
Other	15.2	79	13.9	101
Education, %
Public school	64.1	78	74.3	101	0.143
High school/ University	35.9	78	25.7	101
Health education, %	26.0	77	13.3	98	0.033
High degree of satisfaction with hospital care**, %
At admission	38.4	73	57.6	99	0.008
During the hospital stay	41.1	73	56.1	98	0.001
At discharge	32.9	73	43.9	98	0.030
High degree of trust in the provided care**, %
I trusted that my relative got the care s/he needed	39.0	77	54.6	99	0.008

^*SAS 9.3 was used for the statistical analysis. The χ² test was used to analyze categorical data, and the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to analyze numerical data. P-values < 0.05 were considered significant and are highlighted in bold font

**Response categories in the questionnaire were: high degree, some degree, less degree, not at all