“…They described the caring behaviours perceived by patients and nursing professionals in different fields, although all of them in a hospital environment, and related these behaviours to other variables. The studies were conducted in a range of countries, including the United Kingdom (Chana, Kennedy, & Chessell, ; Flynn, ), USA (Merrill, Hayes, Clukey, & Curtis, ; Sossong & Poirier, ), Greece (Karlou, Papathanassoglou, & Patiraki, ; Sarafis et al, ), Australia (Edvardsson, Watt, & Pearce, ), China (He et al, ), Malaysia (Kaur, Sambasivan, & Kumar, ). Joint studies were completed in Finland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Greece and Italy (Papastavrou et al, ; Patiraki et al, ).…”