Table 3.

Correlation analysis of the readiness for hospital discharge and the quality of discharge teaching of patients discharged with tubes from the department of hepatobiliary surgery (n = 161)

Items		Required information	Actual obtained information	Discharge teaching skills and effects	Total score of the QDTS
Basic information	Pearson coefficient	− 0.073	− 0.009	0.562**	0.532**
	P	0.357	0.911	< 0.001	< 0.001
Disease-related knowledge	Pearson coefficient	− 0.050	0.063	0.658**	0.638**
	P	0.531	0.430	< 0.001	< 0.001
Coping capability	Pearson coefficient	0.020	0.018	0.459**	0.449**
	P	0.804	0.824	< 0.001	< 0.001
Social support	Pearson coefficient	0.001	− 0.023	− 0.135	− 0.134
	P	0.990	0.775	0.087	0.090
Total score of the RHDS	Pearson coefficient	− 0.072	0.039	0.889**	0.855**
	P	0.362	0.627	< 0.001	< 0.001

^**The correlation at 0.05 level (two-sided test) is statistically significant