Table 4.

Pearson’s correlation coefficients between severity and frequency of moral distress in nurses, and the total score of ethical climate

Score	Frequency of Moral Distress		Severity of Moral Distress
	r	P value	r	P value
Total Score of Ethical Climate	- 0.194	0.001	- 0.170	0.003
Ethical Climate/Colleagues	- 0.187	0.001	- 0.069	0.23
Ethical Climate/Patients	- 0.181	0.002	- 0.053	0.36
Ethical Climate/Managers	- 0.090	0.12	- 0.092	0.11
Ethical Climate/Hospital	- 0.139	0.02	- 0.153	0.008
Ethical Climate/Physicians	- 0.224	< 0.001	- 0.259	< 0.001