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Levels of empathy in undergraduate emergency health, nursing, and midwifery students: a longitudinal study

PURPOSE: This research examines the extent and nature of empathy among emergency health (paramedic), nursing, and midwifery students at one Australian university and investigates the longitudinal changes in empathy levels across the course of study. METHODS: First-, second-, and third-year students...

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Autores principales: Williams, Brett, Brown, Ted, Boyle, Malcolm, McKenna, Lisa, Palermo, Claire, Etherington, Jamie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25246815
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S66681
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Brown, Ted
Boyle, Malcolm
McKenna, Lisa
Palermo, Claire
Etherington, Jamie
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description PURPOSE: This research examines the extent and nature of empathy among emergency health (paramedic), nursing, and midwifery students at one Australian university and investigates the longitudinal changes in empathy levels across the course of study. METHODS: First-, second-, and third-year students at Monash University completed the Jefferson Scale of Empathy–Health Professional (JSE-HP) in 2008, 2009, and 2010, and the resulting mean empathy scores were analyzed by course, year of course, year of study, age, and sex. RESULTS: Midwifery students were found to have higher empathy levels than nursing and emergency health students. Second- and third-year students scored higher than their counterparts in the first year. Empathy levels dipped in 2009 and rose in 2010. Students aged 26–30 years and 31–35 years recorded higher scores than their younger colleagues, and female students were found to be more empathic than their male counterparts. CONCLUSION: The finding that empathy levels are relatively stable over the term of study contributes to the understanding of how empathy evolves over the course of study and offers insights into the importance of incorporating and promoting empathy in health care curricula.
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spelling pubmed-41662552014-09-22 Levels of empathy in undergraduate emergency health, nursing, and midwifery students: a longitudinal study Williams, Brett Brown, Ted Boyle, Malcolm McKenna, Lisa Palermo, Claire Etherington, Jamie Adv Med Educ Pract Original Research PURPOSE: This research examines the extent and nature of empathy among emergency health (paramedic), nursing, and midwifery students at one Australian university and investigates the longitudinal changes in empathy levels across the course of study. METHODS: First-, second-, and third-year students at Monash University completed the Jefferson Scale of Empathy–Health Professional (JSE-HP) in 2008, 2009, and 2010, and the resulting mean empathy scores were analyzed by course, year of course, year of study, age, and sex. RESULTS: Midwifery students were found to have higher empathy levels than nursing and emergency health students. Second- and third-year students scored higher than their counterparts in the first year. Empathy levels dipped in 2009 and rose in 2010. Students aged 26–30 years and 31–35 years recorded higher scores than their younger colleagues, and female students were found to be more empathic than their male counterparts. CONCLUSION: The finding that empathy levels are relatively stable over the term of study contributes to the understanding of how empathy evolves over the course of study and offers insights into the importance of incorporating and promoting empathy in health care curricula. Dove Medical Press 2014-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4166255/ /pubmed/25246815 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S66681 Text en © 2014 Williams et al. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25246815
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S66681
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