Table 3.

The Relationship Between Patients’ Perceptions of Doctor–Patient Relational Empathy and Self-Efficacy, Anxiety, Sleep and IL-6 in Patients

	M	SD	Empathy	Self-Efficacy	Anxiety	Sleep	IL-6
Empathy	37.110	4.797	1
Self-efficacy	2.200	0.797	0.497**	1
Anxiety	13.570	4.742	−0.479**	−0.385**	1
Sleep	69.530	10.642	0.433**	0.355**	−0.592**	1
IL-6	166.800	41.414	−0.414**	−0.426**	0.680**	−0.747**	1

Notes: **P<0.01. All the data were measured at T2. Empathy indicates patients’ perceptions of doctor–patient relational empathy.

Abbreviations: M, mean; SD, standard deviation.