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The effect of stress coping styles on empathy level in students of medicine: A cross-sectional study
We aimed to investigate the change in the ability of clinical empathy, which has a special importance in physician-patient relationship, during medical school years, and its relationship between stress coping styles. After the preliminary interview with 292 volunteer medical school students, the stu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9704976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36451464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000032066 |
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description | We aimed to investigate the change in the ability of clinical empathy, which has a special importance in physician-patient relationship, during medical school years, and its relationship between stress coping styles. After the preliminary interview with 292 volunteer medical school students, the students were asked to answer the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale, the Stress Coping Scale, and the student version of the Jefferson Doctor Empathy Scale. This study shows that the lowest median of the empathy level among medical school students was in the sixth year, and the decrease in empathy in the sixth year was mostly in the perspective taking component. When the relationship between empathy and coping styles with stress was examined, it was seen that self-confident approach was positively correlated with perspective taking (R = 0.182, P = .002) and standing in the patient’s shoes (R = 0.172, P = .003). It was observed that the helpless approach, which is one of the negative coping styles, was inversely correlated with standing in the patient’s shoes. As a result of the study, it was determined that the styles of coping with stress were related to the components of empathy, except for compassionate care. The self-confidence approach has an impact on the ability of standing in the patient’s shoes and perspective-taking. During medical education, focusing on the approaches that increase the student’s self-confidence against the stress will encounter throughout their professional life will undoubtedly increase the level of empathy. |
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spelling | pubmed-97049762022-11-29 The effect of stress coping styles on empathy level in students of medicine: A cross-sectional study Kurtses Gürsoy, Betül Medicine (Baltimore) 5000 We aimed to investigate the change in the ability of clinical empathy, which has a special importance in physician-patient relationship, during medical school years, and its relationship between stress coping styles. After the preliminary interview with 292 volunteer medical school students, the students were asked to answer the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale, the Stress Coping Scale, and the student version of the Jefferson Doctor Empathy Scale. This study shows that the lowest median of the empathy level among medical school students was in the sixth year, and the decrease in empathy in the sixth year was mostly in the perspective taking component. When the relationship between empathy and coping styles with stress was examined, it was seen that self-confident approach was positively correlated with perspective taking (R = 0.182, P = .002) and standing in the patient’s shoes (R = 0.172, P = .003). It was observed that the helpless approach, which is one of the negative coping styles, was inversely correlated with standing in the patient’s shoes. As a result of the study, it was determined that the styles of coping with stress were related to the components of empathy, except for compassionate care. The self-confidence approach has an impact on the ability of standing in the patient’s shoes and perspective-taking. During medical education, focusing on the approaches that increase the student’s self-confidence against the stress will encounter throughout their professional life will undoubtedly increase the level of empathy. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9704976/ /pubmed/36451464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000032066 Text en Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | 5000 Kurtses Gürsoy, Betül The effect of stress coping styles on empathy level in students of medicine: A cross-sectional study |
title | The effect of stress coping styles on empathy level in students of medicine: A cross-sectional study |
title_full | The effect of stress coping styles on empathy level in students of medicine: A cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | The effect of stress coping styles on empathy level in students of medicine: A cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of stress coping styles on empathy level in students of medicine: A cross-sectional study |
title_short | The effect of stress coping styles on empathy level in students of medicine: A cross-sectional study |
title_sort | effect of stress coping styles on empathy level in students of medicine: a cross-sectional study |
topic | 5000 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9704976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36451464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000032066 |
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