How to Measure the Empathy Level of Undergraduate Nursing Students? An Integrative Review

Souza, Mirella Castelhano; Godoy, Simone de; Santos, Sara Soares dos; Trevizan, María Auxiliadora; Silveira, Renata Cristina de Campos Pereira; Mendes, Isabel Amélia Costa

doi:10.1590/1980-265x-tce-2018-0017

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“…All the study participants voiced empathy with their patients' suffering, indicating that students were empathically responding to their patients. Nursing students displayed a higher level of empathic emotions in comparison with other students 6–9 . The current study participants mentioned that they all had an affective state as a response to seeing someone in suffering.…”

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“…Nursing students displayed a higher level of empathic emotions in comparison with other students. [6][7][8][9] The current study participants mentioned that they all had an affective state as a response to seeing someone in suffering. The affective empathy was voiced by all the participants, and this was an extremely prominent kind of empathy among Arabic nursing students at this stage of their career.…”

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“…4 Evidence suggests that trained empathy, otherwise called clinical empathy is one of the most critical components required to deliver tailored individualized safe quality care, 5 and results in positive patient outcomes. [6][7][8][9] Further health care providers who have higher levels of empathy experience less stress and less anxiety in the workplace and work more efficiently to fulfill their nursing role, which in turn adds to their quality of life. 10 Empathy also helps health care providers make a precise assessment of their patients' conditions and enhances the user's ability to understand their management plan.…”

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Arab nursing students' perception of the emotional experience of patient care: A phenomenological study

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Background: A shared emotional response helps with understanding what other people are feeling and/or thinking; and it is a vital skill in clinical settings. Collectivist communities place more emphasis on the emotional components of their feelings in comparison to the cognitive aspects of their emotions.Purpose: This study aimed to explore the emotions experienced by students at their first clinical placement.Methods: A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used among nine baccalaureate students.Results: Three major themes emerged from the data: overwhelming emotions; unbalanced perception of professional identity; and adjustment and adaptation.Conclusions and Discussion: It is evident that nursing students from collectivist communities encounter challenges in dealing with their emotions and managing their patients' emotions; however, they were capable of empathizing with their patients using the two components of their empathy; affective (emotion) and cognitive (cognition), with prominence given to the affective part. As countries become increasingly multi-cultural, which in turn influences the characteristics of people entering pre-registration nursing programs, nursing leaders are invited to address both dimensions of empathy as part of the nursing curriculum. Attention should also be given in clinical settings to appropriate channeling of clinical empathy to cultivate a professional identity.

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“…Formando assim, um vínculo que beneficia ambos. Quando o paciente se sente compreendido e acolhido, tende a melhorar a adesão ao tratamento, que, por sua vez, fortalece o sentimento de dever realizado do enfermeiro 20 .…”

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Objetivo: Buscar evidências disponíveis na literatura sobre abordagem da empatia/habilidade empática em estudantes de Enfermagem. Método: Revisão integrativa da literatura nas bases de dados PubMed, LILACS e SciELO, resultando em 11 artigos. Resultados: Os estudos foram publicados entre 2013 e 2019, com três artigos em revistas com Qualis Capes, sendo três em revistas internacionais. O país com maior número de estudos na temática foi o Brasil, com sete, seguido de Portugal, México, Colômbia e Cuba com um estudo cada. A maior parte dos autores eram doutores (seis). O delineamento dos estudos, eram tanto qualitativos, quanto quantitativos (cinco) e a maior parte tinha nível de evidência IV. A análise de conteúdo identificou as categorias temáticas: Percepção do estudante de Enfermagem acerca do cuidado e empatia; Reflexão sobre empatia e a Enfermagem; e Habilidade empática e suas competências. Conclusão: A empatia é vista como capacidade essencial na formação de estudantes de Enfermagem e está diretamente relacionada ao cuidado humanizado e pessoal por parte da equipe de saúde. Esta habilidade deve fazer parte da matriz curricular em todos os cursos da saúde para fortalecer a afetividade durante o processo de cuidar.Descritores: Empatia; Educação em Enfermagem; Cuidados de Enfermagem; Estudantes; Estudantes de Enfermagem. EMPATHIC SKILL AND ITS LEARNING IN NURSING STUDENTSObjective: To search for available evidence in the literature on how empathy / empathic ability in nursing students is approached. Method: Integrative literature review, for selection, three PubMed, LILACS and SciELO databases resulted of 11 articles. Results: Most studies were published in 2013 and 2019, with 27.3% in journals with classification in Brazil on Qualis Capes B1 and 18.2% in A1, 3 was in international journals, and 45.5% in both English and Portuguese. The country with the largest number of studies on the subject was Brazil, with seven (64%), followed by Portugal, Mexico, Colombia and Cuba with one (9%) study each. Most of the authors were doctors (55.3%). The approuches of the studies were both quali and quantitative (45.4%) and most had level of evidence IV. The content analysis identified the thematic categories: (1) the nursing student's perception of care and empathy; (2) reflection on empathy and nursing; and (3) empathic ability and competencies. Conclusion: Empathy is seen as an essential capacity in the training of nursing students and is directly related to humanized and more personal care by the health team. This skill must be part of the teaching grid in all areas of health and all they benefit from their learning.Descriptors: Empathy; Education, Nursing; Nursing Care; Students; Students, Nursing. HABILIDAD EMPÁTICA Y SU APRENDIZAJE EN ESTUDIANTES DE ENFERMERÍAObjectivo: Buscar evidencia disponible en la literatura sobre cómo se aborda la empatía/habilidad empática en estudiantes de enfermería. Método: Revisión bibliográfica integral em las bases de datos PubMed, LILACS y SciELO resultando en 11 artículos. Resultados: La mayoría de los estudios se publicaron en 2013 y 2019, con un 27,3% en revistas con classificação en Brasil Qualis Capes B1 y un 18,2% en A1, 3 en revistas internacionales y un 45,5% en inglés y portugués. El país con el mayor número de estudios sobre el tema fue Brasil, con siete (64%), seguido de Portugal, México, Colombia y Cuba con un (9%) estudio cada uno. La mayoría de los autores eran médicos (55,3%). Los diseños de los estudios fueron tanto cualitativos como cuantitativos (45,4%) y la mayoría tenía un nivel de evidencia IV. El análisis de contenido identificó las categorías temáticas: (1) la percepción de atención y empatía del estudiante de enfermería; (2) reflexión sobre empatía y enfermería; y (3) capacidad y competencias empáticas. Conclusion: La empatía es vista como una capacidad esencial en la formación de estudiantes de enfermería y está directamente relacionada con la atención humanizada y más personal del equipo de salud. Esta habilidad debe ser parte de la red de enseñanza en todas las áreas de la salud y todos se benefician de su aprendizaje.Descriptores: Empatía; Educación en Enfermería; Atención de Enfermeira; Estudiantes; Estudiantes de Enfermeira.

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“…Empathy is an attribute which permits nursing staff to have a close relationship with patients (inter‐subjective relation). The presence of empathy permits the development of benefits for the patient (Díaz‐Narváez et al., 2020a) and is relevant to the quality of care provided in health services (Souza et al., 2019). Empathy, in the process of its development, depends on many factors (Mendes & Martino, 2020; Vasconcelos et al., 2020) which act upon the ontogenetic development of a person (Zabala et al., 2018) and their passage through university is the last opportunity to develop it (Souza et al., 2019).…”

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Empathy, psychometrics, cut‐off points in nursing students from Latin America

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Background: Currently, there are no cut-off points for levels of empathy, making it difficult to assess the change experienced in its development or as a result of its intervention. It is an unsolved problem. Introduction: Empathy is a cognitive-affective attribute that enables nursing staff to maintain a professional relationship that entails various benefits for the patient. Its strengthening and development during university education is desirable. Empathy studies in Latin American nursing students are based on the direct scores obtained on an empathy test, based on which the variable is described and groups are compared. Statistical comparisons are not enough to discriminate substantive changes since two statistical values can show differences without implying that the post-intervention levels may correspond to a higher category in relation to those of pre-intervention or that two compared groups are qualitatively different. The above applies to empathic behaviour and is valid for students and professionals of health. This study aimed to establish cut-off points that allow defining ordinal categories in empathy. Methods: In this multicenter and cross-sectional study, 3712 students from 11 Latin American nursing schools participated. The Jefferson Empathy Scale (JES) was applied;

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How to Measure the Empathy Level of Undergraduate Nursing Students? An Integrative Review

Cited by 6 publications

References 69 publications

Arab nursing students' perception of the emotional experience of patient care: A phenomenological study

Arab nursing students' perception of the emotional experience of patient care: A phenomenological study

Habilidade empática e seu aprendizado em graduandos de Enfermagem

Empathy, psychometrics, cut‐off points in nursing students from Latin America

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