TABLE 1.

Nurse survey responses with corresponding patient mean values for matching questions

As a nurse, I	Nurse mean	Patient mean	Parametric p-valuea
Treat patients’ body carefully	4.82	4.84	0.875
Respect patients	4.81	4.9	0.227
Respect patients’ need for privacy	4.71	4.78	0.546
Pay attention to patients when they are talking	4.68	4.86	0.046
Make patients feel as comfortable as possible	4.64	4.89	0.003
Show respect for those things that have meaning to patients	4.54	4.72	0.130
Are responsive to patients’ families	4.46	4.85	<0.001
Acknowledge patients’ inner feelings	4.46	4.85	<0.001
Seem interested in patients	4.46	4.78	0.003
Support patients’ sense of hope	4.46	4.44	0.910
Support patients with their beliefs	4.43	4.28	0.485
Help patients see some good aspects of their situation	4.36	4.58	0.150
Are concerned about how patients view things	4.36	4.46	0.588
Help patients believe in themselves	4.3	4.25	0.835
Anticipate patients’ needs	4.25	4.68	<0.001
Help patients to figure out questions to ask other health care professionals	4.22	4.63	0.009
Talk openly to patients’ family	4.18	4.75	<0.001
Help patients to figure out questions to ask other health care professionals	4.18	3.9	0.233
Know what is important to patients	4.11	4.35	0.202
Allow patients to choose the best time to talk about their concerns	4.04	4.59	<0.001
Encouraged patients’ ability to go on with life	4	4.58	0.002
Help patients deal with their bad feelings	4	4.58	0.002
Help patients with special routine needs for sleep	4	4.58	0.002
Help patients understand how they are thinking about their illness	3.89	4.32	0.034
Ask patients how they think their health care treatment is going	3.82	4.25	0.057
Help patients explore alternative ways of dealing with their health problem/s	3.64	3.94	0.234
Ask patients what they know about their illness	3.5	3.89	0.130

Note. N range for nurses was 27–28; N range for patients was 68–73.

^aThe parametric p-value is calculated by ANOVA for numerical covariates.