Table 6.

Correlation between providing 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
Providing of compassionate care	R = -0.019 P = 0.746	R = 0.080 P = 0.169	R = 0.042 P = 0.590
Meaningful connection	R = -0.018 P = 0.760	R = 0.073 P = 0.205	R = 0.045 P = 0.566
Patient expectation	R = 0.022 P = 0.706	R = 0.102 P = 0.079	R = 0.052 P = 0.506
Caring attributes	R = -0.064 P = 0.267	R = 0.020 P = 0.726	R = 0.057 P = 0.461
Capable practitioner	R = 0.002 P = 0.971	R = 0.039 P = 0.501	R = -0.022 P = 0.773