Table 3 Mean score of compassionate care in patients undergoing HD
From: The association of compassionate care and coping with disease among patients undergoing hemodialysis
Nurses: | Mean (SD) |
|---|---|
1. Express sensitivity, caring, and compassion for your situation | 8.75 (1.47) |
2. Strive to understand your emotional needs | 8.54 (1.65) |
3. Consider the effect of your illness on you, your family, and the people most important to you | 7.90 (1.80) |
4. Listen attentively to you | 8.50 (1.74) |
5. Convey information to you in a way that is understandable | 8.52 (1.65) |
6. Gain your trust | 8.53 (1.65) |
7. Always involve you in decisions about your treatment | 8.48 (1.67) |
8. Comfortably discuss sensitive, emotional, or psychological issues | 7.78 (1.69) |
9. Treat you as a person not a disease | 8.57 (1.77) |
10. Show respect for you, your family, and those important to you? | 8.63 (1.69) |
11. Communicate results in a timely and sensitive manner | 8.47 (1.65) |
12. Spend enough time with you | 8.53 (1.75) |
Total Score | 101.20 (17.47) |