Table 5.

correlation between the importance of compassionate care and its factors with the variables of age, duration of hospitalisation and number of hospitalisations

Variables	Age	Duration of hospitalisation	Number of hospitalisations
Importance of compassionate care	R = 0.055 P = 0.344	R = 0.022 P = 0.706	R = 0.029 P = 0.720
Meaningful connection	R = 0.074 P = 0.201	R = 0.056 P = 0.332	R = -0.022 P = 0.779
Patient expectation	R = 0.020 P = 0.726	R = 0.030 P = 0.602	R = -0.086 P = 0.267
Caring attributes	R = 0.012 P = 0.841	R = 0.026 P = 0.651	R = 0.054 P = 0.485
Capable Practitioner	R = 0.062 P = 0.288	R = 0.066 P = 0.254	R = -0.010 P = 0.899