caring behaviours, personal characteristics, nurses, patients

The purpose of this European survey was to examine the relationship of surgical patients? and nurses? personal characteristics with their perceptions of caring behaviours. Caring Behaviour Inventory (CBI) was completed by convenience samples of 1659 patients and 1195 nurses from six countries of Europe. The results showed that the older the patients, the more positive were their evaluations of CBI. Those with planned admission and good/very good health conditions gave higher ratings compared to those with an emergency and poor health conditions. ?ype of admission, age and health conditions explained 5.2% of CBI variance. Nurses with more work experience and experience in the unit gave significantly higher ratings compared to nurses with less experience. Nurses? total experience and gender explained 2.3% of the variance of perceived care. Therefore, in a multinational surgical environment, caring behaviours may be influenced by other variables, better captured by using different research methods.