Table 7 The regretion analysis of socio-demographic data on the communication towards attitude questionaire of the patients’ relatives according to the informing, empathy and trust sub-dimensions
From: The communication between patient relatives and physicians in intensive care units
INFORMING | EMPATHY | TRUST | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
β | p | β | p | β | p | |
Descriptions of physicians | ||||||
Advisor | −2.572 | 0.041 | ||||
Friend | 2.078 | 0.016 | ||||
Legal-technical | −1.825 | 0.016 | ||||
Consultant | −2.504 | 0.002 | ||||
Advisor | ||||||
The specialties of the ICU physicians | ||||||
Pulmonologist | ||||||
Cardiovascular surgery | −2.864 | <0.001 | ||||
Internal medicine | 4.971 | <0.001 | −3.247 | <0.001 | ||
How close of the relative being informed by the physician was to the patient | ||||||
Children | 3.157 | 0.010 | 1.498 | 0.002 | ||
The duration of how long the ICU physicians spent speaking to patient relatives | ||||||
1–2 min | −2.204 | 0.037 | −3.878 | <0.001 | −2.260 | |
5–10 min | 0.002 | |||||
The ICU physician characteristics that were important to patient relatives | ||||||
Provision of medical support | ||||||
No | −2.493 | 0.036 | ||||
Confidence | ||||||
No | ||||||
Provision of medical support | ||||||
No | −1.841 | 0.012 | −2.418 | 0.003 | ||