al nursing services delivered than were their American counterparts, and thus held higher perceptions of the level of delivered nursing services than did American patients. The second criterion for acceptance of the hypothesis was not met. Therefore, by inference, hypothesis number one was rejected.
Results of ANOVA: Comparison of Patient Perceptions Brazil and the United States
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Source of Sum of Degrees of Mean F Ratio
Variation Squares Freedom Square
Country 13898.397 1 13898.397 49.938
Residual 25604.764 92 278.313
Critical Value of F at p<.001: 11.680
Statistically Significant at p<.001: Yes
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Comparison of Provider Perceptions:
Hypothesis number two held that provider perceptions of the quality level of nursing services will be higher in the United States than in Brazil. The structure of the rating instruments completed by the patient and provider samples yielded results wherein lower scores indicated more positive perceptions of delivered nursing services, or a lower level of dissatisfaction. Therefore, for hypothesis number two to be accepted, two criteria were required to be met. First, the mean provider score of the quality level of nursing services delivered in Brazil was required to be higher that the mean provider score in the United States. Second, the variations between the weighted perceptions of the Brazilian and American provider samples were required to be statistically significant at p<.05. As the data presented in Table 2 indicate (the table may be found on the following page), the var...