Empathy: the effects of undergraduate nursing education in Turkey

Özcan, Celale Tangül; Oflaz, Fahriye; Çıçek, Hatice

doi:10.1111/j.1466-7657.2010.00832.x

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“…38 This finding runs counter to the popular belief that nurses are the most empathetic health professionals. 39 Those results must be taken with precaution considering that our group of nurses simultaneously displayed a higher level of psychological distress than the general population of Canada, 40 together with a lower level of psychological wellbeing. Most studies of mental health in nurses focus on psychological distress, 20,41 but few consider psychological well-being.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Relationship Between Empathy and Well-Being Among Emergency Nurses

Bourgault¹,

Lavoie²,

Paul-Savoie³

et al. 2015

Journal of Emergency Nursing

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Relationship Between Empathy and Well-Being Among Emergency Nurses

Bourgault¹,

Lavoie²,

Paul-Savoie³

et al. 2015

Journal of Emergency Nursing

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“…Empathic skills are essential for the provision of effective nursing care (7); they are teachable, and important for cooperation-based relationships. It has been reported that the nature of the nursing profession requires nurses to have these skills (8-10). In their study, Reynolds & Scott (9) emphasized that nurses who are able to approach their patients empathetically can better understand their reactions to health problems, as well as the purpose and source of these reactions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Empathy Training on the Empathic Skills of Nurses

Kahrıman

Nural

Arslan

et al. 2016

Iran Red Crescent Med J

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BackgroundThe profound impact of empathy training on quality nursing care has been recognized. Studies have shown that there has been little improvement in nurses’ communication skills, and that they should work to enhance this area. Relevant training will lead to an improvement in nurses’ empathic skills, which in turn, will enable them to understand their patients better, establish positive interpersonal relationships with them, and boost their professional satisfaction.ObjectivesTo reveal the effect of empathy training on the empathic skills of nurses.Patients and MethodsThis study was conducted as an experimental design. The research sample consisted of 48 nurses working at the pediatric clinics of Farabi hospital of Karadeniz Technical University in Turkey (N = 83). Two groups, an experimental group (group 1) and a control group (group 2) were determined after questionnaires were supplied to all nurses in the study sample. At first, it was intended to select these groups using a random method. However, since this may have meant that the experimental and control groups were formed from nurses working in the same service, the two groups were selected from different services to avoid possible interaction between them. The nurses in the Group 1 were provided with empathy training through group and creative drama techniques. Pre-tests and post-tests were conducted on both groups. Data was collected via a questionnaire designed around the topic “empathic skill scale-ESS”, developed by Dokmen. The Kolmogorov Smirnov test was employed to assess whether the measurable data was suitable for normal distribution. Data was presented as numbers and percentage distributions, as mean ± standard deviation and Chi-square, and as student t tests and paired t tests. The level of significance was accepted as P < 0.05.ResultsThe nurses in the experimental group had a mean score of 146.7 ± 38.8 and 169.5 ± 22.1 in the ESS pre-test and post-test, respectively. Although the nurses in the control group had a pre-test mean score of 133.7 ± 37.1, which increased to 135.1 ± 51.7 after the training, no statistically significant difference was found (P = 0.886). A comparison of the groups indicated that they scored similarly in the pre-test. However, the experimental group scored significantly higher than the control group in the post-test (P = 0.270 and P = 0.015, respectively).ConclusionsIn the light of these findings, it is recommended that communication skills should be widely included in in-service training programs; similar studies should be conducted on broader control groups formed through randomization; and a comparison should be made between the findings.

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“…McKenna et al (2012) found that nursing students in Australia had a high empathy level with a mean of 107.34 within a possible range of scores of 20-140 on the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (Health Professional Version). A longitudinal study on undergraduate nursing students in Turkey found that students had an increase in empathic skills but a decrease in empathic tendency throughout their education (Ozcan et al, 2010). Ward et al (2012) also found that undergraduate nursing students decreased their empathy with increased exposure to patients.…”

Section: Empathy Of Nursing Studentsmentioning

confidence: 98%