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Changing characteristics of the empathic communication network after empathy-enhancement program for medical students
The Empathy-Enhancement Program for Medical Students (EEPMS) comprises five consecutive weekly sessions and aims to improve medical students’ empathic ability, an essential component of humanistic medical professionalism. Using a graph theory approach for the Ising network (based on l(1)-regularized...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180138/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30305683 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33501-z |
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author | Yun, Je-Yeon Kim, Kyoung Hee Joo, Geum Jae Kim, Bung Nyun Roh, Myoung-Sun Shin, Min-Sup |
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description | The Empathy-Enhancement Program for Medical Students (EEPMS) comprises five consecutive weekly sessions and aims to improve medical students’ empathic ability, an essential component of humanistic medical professionalism. Using a graph theory approach for the Ising network (based on l(1)-regularized logistic regression) comprising emotional regulation, empathic understanding of others’ emotion, and emotional expressivity, this study aimed to identify the central components or hubs of empathic communication and the changed profile of integration among these hubs after the EEPMS. Forty medical students participated in the EEPMS and completed the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21, the Empathy Quotient-Short Form, the Jefferson Scale of Empathy, and the Emotional Expressiveness Scale at baseline and after the EEPMS. The Ising model-based network of empathic communication was retrieved separately at two time points. Agitation, self-efficacy for predicting others’ feelings, emotional concealment, active emotional expression, and emotional leakage ranked in the top 20% in terms of nodal strength and betweenness and closeness centralities, and they became hubs. After the EEPMS, the ‘intentional emotional expressivity’ component became less locally segregated (P = 0.014) and more directly integrated into those five hubs. This study shows how to quantitatively describe the qualitative item-level effects of the EEPMS. The key role of agitation in the network highlights the importance of stress management in preserving the capacity for empathic communication. The training effect of EEPMS, shown by the reduced local segregation and enhanced integration of ‘intentional emotional expressivity’ with hubs, suggests that the EEPMS could enable medical students to develop competency in emotional expression, which is an essential component of empathic communication. |
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spelling | pubmed-61801382018-10-15 Changing characteristics of the empathic communication network after empathy-enhancement program for medical students Yun, Je-Yeon Kim, Kyoung Hee Joo, Geum Jae Kim, Bung Nyun Roh, Myoung-Sun Shin, Min-Sup Sci Rep Article The Empathy-Enhancement Program for Medical Students (EEPMS) comprises five consecutive weekly sessions and aims to improve medical students’ empathic ability, an essential component of humanistic medical professionalism. Using a graph theory approach for the Ising network (based on l(1)-regularized logistic regression) comprising emotional regulation, empathic understanding of others’ emotion, and emotional expressivity, this study aimed to identify the central components or hubs of empathic communication and the changed profile of integration among these hubs after the EEPMS. Forty medical students participated in the EEPMS and completed the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21, the Empathy Quotient-Short Form, the Jefferson Scale of Empathy, and the Emotional Expressiveness Scale at baseline and after the EEPMS. The Ising model-based network of empathic communication was retrieved separately at two time points. Agitation, self-efficacy for predicting others’ feelings, emotional concealment, active emotional expression, and emotional leakage ranked in the top 20% in terms of nodal strength and betweenness and closeness centralities, and they became hubs. After the EEPMS, the ‘intentional emotional expressivity’ component became less locally segregated (P = 0.014) and more directly integrated into those five hubs. This study shows how to quantitatively describe the qualitative item-level effects of the EEPMS. The key role of agitation in the network highlights the importance of stress management in preserving the capacity for empathic communication. The training effect of EEPMS, shown by the reduced local segregation and enhanced integration of ‘intentional emotional expressivity’ with hubs, suggests that the EEPMS could enable medical students to develop competency in emotional expression, which is an essential component of empathic communication. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6180138/ /pubmed/30305683 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33501-z Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Yun, Je-Yeon Kim, Kyoung Hee Joo, Geum Jae Kim, Bung Nyun Roh, Myoung-Sun Shin, Min-Sup Changing characteristics of the empathic communication network after empathy-enhancement program for medical students |
title | Changing characteristics of the empathic communication network after empathy-enhancement program for medical students |
title_full | Changing characteristics of the empathic communication network after empathy-enhancement program for medical students |
title_fullStr | Changing characteristics of the empathic communication network after empathy-enhancement program for medical students |
title_full_unstemmed | Changing characteristics of the empathic communication network after empathy-enhancement program for medical students |
title_short | Changing characteristics of the empathic communication network after empathy-enhancement program for medical students |
title_sort | changing characteristics of the empathic communication network after empathy-enhancement program for medical students |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180138/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30305683 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33501-z |
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