Data Analysis
Descriptive analyses included frequencies, percentages,
and mean scores for caring behavior items and subscales.
Inferential statistics included the following: a Wilcoxon
signed-rank test to compare the importance of caring behaviors
with nurse attendance frequency and a Mann-
Whitney U test to assess how participant gender may
influence perceptions of relative caring behavior subscale
importance and perceptions that said caring behaviors
were attended to by nurses. The significance level was set
at p < .05, with the cutoff point for the two scales set at 3.