The Impact of Pain Invisibility on Patient-Centered Care and Empathetic Attitude in Chronic Pain Management

Table 2

Influence of clinical experience on caregivers’ behaviours in the presence or absence of physical visible signs.

	Similar ratings	Different ratings	p value
Patient-centered behaviour
	14	28
Clinical experience, years (SD)	24.64 (8.68)	17.29 (10.36)	0.03
Empathetic behaviour
	20	22
Clinical experience, years (SD)	20.35 (9.73)	19.18 (11.05)	0.23

SD = standard deviation.