Evaluation of Empathy Among Korean Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study Using the Korean Version of the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy

Roh, Meejeon; Hahm, Bong‐Jin; Lee, Dong Hun; Suh, Dae Hun

doi:10.1080/10401334.2010.488191

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“…The mean empathy score among the medical students in KAU was 106.55 and this level seems to be relatively lower than what was reported in some Western countries such as the USA, mean score was 115, [15,13] and German, mean score was 110.52 [14]. However, the mean score of empathy level of our KAU medical students was near to that of the Asian medical students such as in Iran, mean score was 105.1 [7], in Kuwait, mean score was 104.6 [10], Japan, mean score was 104.3 [4], and Korea, mean score was104 [5]. Cultural and social issues could be behind these variations between western and eastern countries.…”

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“…Education and Health Careat Jefferson Medical College, to measure the level of empathy among physicians and other health professionals [3].The hypothesis that empathy declines as students' progress through medical school has previously investigated in many Asian countries like Japan [4], South Korea [5], China [6], Iran [7], Bangladesh [8] and India [9], some Arabic countries as Kuwait [10], as well as other countries like UK [11], USA [12], Brazil [13] and German [14] by using the student version of Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE). To our knowledge, the empathy with patients among the Saudi medical students has not been studied till now.…”

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Is the Empathy Level of Medical Students at KAU Changeable along their Study Years? What is behind this Change?

Ayuob¹,

Alharthi²,

Alahmadi³

et al. 2016

Med-Science

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Section: The Jefferson Scale Of Empathy (Jse) Was Developed At the Cementioning

confidence: 99%

Is the Empathy Level of Medical Students at KAU Changeable along their Study Years? What is behind this Change?

Ayuob¹,

Alharthi²,

Alahmadi³

et al. 2016

Med-Science

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“…7 The curriculum in India differs from western countries in that clinical rotation starts from second year itself and from Korea and Japan in that there is no humanities content in the curriculum. 12,13 Studies have shown that medical students who plan to pursue people oriented specializations such as internal medicine, family medicine, psychiatry and pediatrics showed higher empathetic scores and across all years of study in medical school than those who choose to pursue technology oriented specialties such as radiology, surgery and anesthesiology 8,14 . These changes were reported more among male students and those selecting noncore subject such as other than internal medicine, family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology and psychiatry.…”

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“…4,7,8,13 However a Japanese study found no decline in empathy scoring as students progressed from non-clinical to clinical training. 12 In view of such varying empathy findings from different countries, we need to understand empathy among medical students in Indian context. Do our female students have more empathy than male students?…”

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Cross sectional assessment of empathy among undergraduates from a medical college

Shashikumar

Chaudhary

Ryali³

et al. 2014

Medical Journal Armed Forces India

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Undergraduate medical studentsChoice of specialty a b s t r a c t Background: Empathy is essentially a desirable quality among clinicians and can be developed during medical education. Studies from outside India have shown that higher empathy is related to better competency and choice of specialty may be related to empathy levels in them. Change in empathy levels among undergraduate medical students with progressive training has been often ascribed to reasons such as curriculum content, timing of clinical rotations. Gender differences in empathy levels also vary among different countries. Since many of such factors differ in India there is a need therefore to understand empathy and its correlates among medical students in India.Method: A cross sectional study was undertaken in a large medical college among the undergraduates of first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth semesters to measure their empathy levels. The evaluation was done using the Jefferson's Scale for Physician's Empathy-Student version.Results: The study revealed highest empathy at entry level and a significant fall by seventh semester (p ¼ 0.002). Female students had significantly higher empathy levels than male students (p ¼ 0.012) across all semesters. The variance in empathy scores according specialty chosen is not statistically significant (p ¼ 0.2468). Conclusion:The progressive decline in empathy levels with years in medical college here is seen much later than in western studies. Female students are more empathetic than male students. The relation of mean empathy scores and choice of specialty is inconclusive and at variance from other studies.ª 2014, Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS). All rights reserved.* Corresponding author. Tel.: þ91 9657167900 (mobile). E-mail address: sribuj@yahoo.com (R. Shashikumar).Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect journal homepage: w ww.el sevier.com/locate/mjafi m e d i c a l j o u r n a l a r m e d f o r c e s i n d i a 7 0 ( 2 0 1 4 ) 1 7 9 e1 8 5

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“…It has been demonstrated 22 that there is gender variability in relation to empathy in a study in 18 dental schools in Latin America. As a consequence, it is not possible to state categorically that women are more empathetic than men in all populations studied, despite the fact that authors have observed the opposite [8,[23][24][25][26][27].…”

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Empathy, Components of Empathy and Curricular Evaluation of the Faculty of Dentistry, Evangelical University of El Salvador

Díaz-Narváez

Estrada-Méndez

Arévalo-López

et al. 2017

Pesqui. bras. odontopediatria clín. integr.

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Objective: To estimate empathy levels in general and empathic growth potential in dental students. Material and Methods: This is an exploratory, transversal study. The study population is made up of students from the first to fifth academic year of the career of dentistry of the Evangelical University of El Salvador (El Salvador) (148/240, 61.67% of the population studied). The participants were given the Jefferson Empathy Medical Scale, the Spanish version for medical students, validated in Chile and Mexico, and culturally adapted in El Salvador. A bifactorial variance analysis (model III) was applied to find differences in the means between the courses, between the genders and in the interaction between these two factors. The data were described using simple arithmetic graphs, processed with SPSS 22.0. Total growth potential was estimated. Results: Differences were found between academic years, but not in gender of empathy in general and in its components. The levels of empathy and its components are low in relation to other studies. The behavior of the levels of empathy agrees with the concept of empathic decline. The masculine gender presented levels of empathy, in absolute values, greater than the feminine. There is considerable potential for growth in empathy and that of its components. Conclusion: The behavior of the levels of empathy observed in this work does not agree with the concept of empathic decline. The differences observed between the genders were not consistent with those reported by other authors and it is possible that these findings constitute further evidence that empathy itself is not a female attribute.

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Evaluation of Empathy Among Korean Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study Using the Korean Version of the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy

Abstract: Our findings provide support for the reliability and validity of the Korean JSPE-S and indicate that it can serve as a useful instrument for assessing empathy among Korean medical students.

Cited by 148 publications

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Is the Empathy Level of Medical Students at KAU Changeable along their Study Years? What is behind this Change?

Is the Empathy Level of Medical Students at KAU Changeable along their Study Years? What is behind this Change?

Cross sectional assessment of empathy among undergraduates from a medical college

Empathy, Components of Empathy and Curricular Evaluation of the Faculty of Dentistry, Evangelical University of El Salvador

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