Table 5 The compare of socio-demographic data on the communication towards attitude questionaire of the physicians according to the informing, empathy and trust sub-dimensions
From: The communication between patient relatives and physicians in intensive care units
n | INFORMING | EMPATHY | TRUST | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Median (25th–75th Percentile) | p | Median (25th–75th Percentile) | p | Median (25th–75th Percentile) | p | ||
Gender | |||||||
Male | 56 | 34 (27–42) | 0.192 | 37 (29–42) | 0.007 | 20 (16–25) | 0.085 |
Female | 47 | 36 (26–44) | 39 (28–45) | 22 (14–28) | |||
Age groups | |||||||
< 35 | 74 | 35 (26–42) | 0.715 | 37 (26–44) | 0.777 | 20 (12–28) | 0.073 |
35–50 | 24 | 33 (26–42) | 38 (29–44) | 22 (17–27) | |||
> 50 | 5 | 35 (31–37) | 38 (35–40) | 19.5 (17–22) | |||
Descriptions of physicians | |||||||
Legal-technical | |||||||
Consultant | 56 | 37 (34–41) | 0.227 | 39.5 (37–41) | 0.183 | 23 (22–24) | 0.153 |
Advisor | 19 | 36 (27–42) | 38 (32–45) | 22 (17–28) | |||
Friend | 10 | 36 (26–42) | 39 (30–45) | 20 (16–27) | |||
Protector | 11 | 35 (28–41) | 38 (29–40) | 20 (16–27) | |||
Others | 7 | 36 (27–41) | 37 (26–40) | 19 (12–23) | |||
The specialties of the ICU physicians | |||||||
Anesthesiology | 57 | 34 (26–42) | 0.051 | 36 (29–37)a | 0.009 | 21 (16–28)a | <0.001 |
Pulmonologist | 14 | 35 (28–42) | 38 (29–45) | 18 (12–22)ab | |||
Cardiovascular surgery | 9 | 36 (29–37) | 37 (32–39)b | 20 (16–22)c | |||
Internal medicine | 8 | 37 (36–42) | 40 (40–44)ab | 23 (22–24)bc | |||
Surgery | 3 | 38 (33–38) | 37 (37–38) | 22 (22–22) | |||
Emergency medicine | 12 | 35 (28–37) | 39 (29–45) | 20 (17–23) | |||
How close of the relative being informed by the physician was to the patient | |||||||
Spouses | 38 | 34 (28–42) | 0.348 | 38 (29–45) | 0.342 | 20 (16–25) | 0.035 |
Children | 55 | 35 (26–42) | 37 (26–44) | 22 (12–27)a | |||
Parents | 5 | 37 (28–41) | 37 (29–45) | 17 (16–28) | |||
Cousin and other distant relatives | 5 | 35 (32–40) | 38 (35–40) | 19.5 (17–22)a | |||
The frequency of patient relatives’ speaking the physician | |||||||
More than once a day | 22 | 36 (28–41) | 0.287 | 39 (34–45) | 0.272 | 21.5 (16–28) | 0.528 |
Once a day | 66 | 35 (26–42) | 37 (28–45) | 20 (12–28) | |||
Once in every 2 or 3 days | 11 | 34 (27–38) | 38 (31–42) | 22 (20–23) | |||
Once in a week or less | 4 | 33 (30–34) | 35 (35–35) | 19 (17–19) | |||
The duration of how long the ICU physicians spent speaking to patient relatives | |||||||
1–2 min | 13 | 32 (27–37) | 0.129 | 33 (26–37)ab | 0.001 | 19 (12–23) | 0.141 |
5 min | 60 | 35 (28–42) | 38 (29–45)a | 21 (16–28) | |||
10 min | 25 | 35 (26–41) | 40 (29–45)b | 22 (20–22) | |||
> 10 min | 5 | 41 (31–41) | 39 (34–39) | 20 (20–21) | |||
The ICU physician characteristics that were important to patient relatives* | |||||||
Accurate information | |||||||
Yes | 56 | 35 (27–42) | 0.224 | 38.5 (26–45) | 0.205 | 20 (12–18) | 0.081 |
No | 47 | 35 (26–42) | 37 (29–45) | 22 (16–27) | |||
Sympathetic attitude | |||||||
Yes | 28 | 36 (26–41) | 0.350 | 38.5 (29–45) | 0.637 | 22.5 (17–28) | <0.001 |
No | 75 | 35 (27–42) | 37 (26–45) | 22 (16–27) | |||
Provision of medical support | |||||||
Yes | 11 | 36 (32–40) | 0.032 | 39 (33–44) | 0.487 | 22 (20–28) | 0.001 |
No | 92 | 35 (27–42) | 37 (26–44) | 20 (12–27) | |||
Interest and relevance | |||||||
Yes | 47 | 36 (27–41) | 0.117 | 38 (29–45) | 0.241 | 20 (16–28) | 0.448 |
No | 56 | 34 (26–42) | 37 (26–44) | 20.5 (12–27) | |||
Confidence | |||||||
Yes | 76 | 35 (26–42) | 0.368 | 38 (26–45) | 0.079 | 20 (12–28) | 0.617 |
No | 27 | 35 (27–41) | 36 (29–41) | 21 (16–23) | |||