Compassion: a universal language

Booth, Leigh

doi:10.1080/10376178.2016.1221325

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“…Strategies and methods of teaching and learning might vary from one institution to another, which may lead to varying levels of development of compassion. Similarly, nursing students often struggle with compassionate care, and oftentimes, their compassion deteriorate as they become more immersed in the demanding clinical environment (Booth, 2016).…”

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The Compassion Competence Scale Arabic version: A validation study among student nurses and interns in Saudi Arabia

Alabdulaziz

Alquwez

Cruz

et al. 2020

Int J of Nursing Practice

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Aim The aim of this study is to assess the validity and reliability of the Compassion Competence Scale Arabic version for Saudi nursing students and interns. Background Compassion is an essential element of quality health care in which training nursing students to deliver compassionate care is important. Assessment of compassion competence of Arabic‐speaking nursing students requires a valid and reliable tool. Design This is a descriptive and cross‐sectional study. Methods This investigation was conducted from April to May 2019 in two universities in Saudi Arabia involving nursing students and interns. Cultural adaptation was performed using a forward–backward translation method. Content validity and construct validity through exploratory factor analysis were established. Internal consistency, stability and reliability were also determined for the scale. Results The Arabic version has an excellent content validity. The exploratory factor analysis supported a three‐factor solution that accounts for 50.62% of the scale's variance. The Cronbach's alpha of the scale was 0.806, whereas the Cronbach's alpha of the subscales ranged from 0.739 to 0.797. The intraclass correlation coefficient of the two‐week test–retest scores was 0.84. The university, gender, year level and family type predicted the students' compassion competence. Conclusion The Arabic version can be used to measure Arabic‐speaking nursing students' compassion competence in clinical areas.

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The Compassion Competence Scale Arabic version: A validation study among student nurses and interns in Saudi Arabia

Alabdulaziz

Alquwez

Cruz

et al. 2020

Int J of Nursing Practice

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“…14 Similar structural constraints can also result in carers experiencing states that lead to a defensive response to suffering and what is known as compassion fatigue. 15 This includes ‘secondary trauma’, an emotional reaction that arises from experiencing the distress of another, and ‘moral distress’, a dissonance that is created when institutional constraints limit what carers believe to be truly compassionate care. 16 17 Furthermore, we note the existence of a series of scandals around poor or even criminal care, where compassion has been notable by its absence.…”

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A moment for compassion: emerging rhetorics in end-of-life care

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Compassion is an emotional response to the suffering of others. Once felt, it entails subsequent action to ameliorate their suffering. Recently, ‘compassion’ has become the flagship concept to be fostered in the delivery of end-of-life care, and a rallying call for social action and public health intervention. In this paper, we examine the emerging rhetorics of compassion as they relate to end-of-life care and offer a critique of the expanding discourse around it. We argue that, even where individuals ‘possess’ compassion or are ‘trained’ in it, there are difficulties for compassion to flow freely, particularly within Western society. This relates to specific sociopolitical structural factors that include the sense of privacy and individualism in modern industrialised countries, highly professionalised closed health systems, anxiety about litigation on health and safety grounds, and a context of suspicion and mistrust within the global political scenario. We must then ask ourselves whether compassion can be created intentionally, without paying attention to the structural aspects of society. One consequence of globalisation is that countries in the global South are rapidly trying to embrace the features of modernity adopted by the global North. We argue that unrealistic assumptions have been made about the role of compassion in end-of-life care and these idealist aspirations must be tempered by a more structural assessment of potential. Compassion that is not tied to to realistic action runs the risk of becoming empty rhetoric.

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“…Some researchers put into the term "universal language" meanings very close to the term "art of understanding". For example, Leigh Booth considers "compassionate behaviors" as "universal language" (Booth, 2016). This approach to understanding the "universal language" is not much different from the meanings that are concentrated in the phrase "the art of understanding others" (Segal, 2018;Balinchenko, 2019).…”

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The authors investigated the relevance of consequentialism in commercial space exploration as well as in the actively developing space market. The authors conclude that space expansion and colonization of space objects will lead to a revision of the foundational consequentialism provisions. Consequentialism, formed during the history of terrestrial civilization, loses its effectiveness under conditions of space commercialization. The basics of planetary thinking are different from those of cosmic thinking. Therefore, considering the meaning of the terms "cosmic expansion" and "colonization of the cosmos" through the existing theory of consequentialism faces serious contradictions. There is a range of problems that are not explored in modern philosophy and ethics due to the lack of an empirical basis for philosophical analysis.

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Compassion: a universal language

Cited by 11 publications

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The Compassion Competence Scale Arabic version: A validation study among student nurses and interns in Saudi Arabia

The Compassion Competence Scale Arabic version: A validation study among student nurses and interns in Saudi Arabia

A moment for compassion: emerging rhetorics in end-of-life care

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