Hypertension, perceived clinician empathy, and patient self‐disclosure

Dawson, Carolyn

doi:10.1002/nur.4770080213

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“…Such responses included relief from pain, improved pulse and respiratory rates, and clients’ reports of reduced worry and anxiety. This outcome contrasts somewhat with Dawson’s (1985) report that clients with hypertension were different from other clients. Hypertensive clients perceived less empathy in clinicians, and attributed greater importance to discussing with their health care provider their responses to health care, as compared with personal problems and lifestyle matters.…”

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Do nurses and other professional helpers normally display much empathy?

Reynolds

Scott

2000

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Empathy, the ability to perceive and reason, as well as the ability to communicate understanding of the other person's feelings and their attached meanings, is held to be a core characteristic of a helping relationship. This paper examines some of the observations that motivated the authors' interest in how registered nurses learn how to offer empathy to clients. First, while empathy is crucial to all helping relationships, professional helpers do not normally offer much empathy. Second, while nurses are meant to provide helping relationships, they do not tend to show much empathy to clients. The relevance of empathy to clinical nursing and the potential consequences of low-empathy nursing for clients is considered. It will be shown that, in the past, a low level of empathy has been reported among the helping professions, including nursing, indicating that many professional helpers are not as helpful as they ought to be. While most studies of empathy in professional relationships are more than a decade old, more recent studies report similar results.

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Do nurses and other professional helpers normally display much empathy?

Reynolds

Scott

2000

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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143

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“…This finding is congruent with outcomes reported by many other studies. For example, Dawson (1985) reported that clients with hypertension were different from other clients. They perceived less empathy in clinicians, and attributed greater importance to discussing with their health care provider their responses to health care, as compared with personal problems and lifestyle matters.…”

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Clients' reflections on relationships with nurses: comparisons from Canada and Scotland

Forchuk

Reynolds

2001

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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It has been suggested that the crucial elements in nursing situations are the nurse, the client, and what goes on between them. This paper examines what goes on between clients and nurses during interpersonal relationships, from the perspective of the clients. Data are presented from studies conducted in Canada and Scotland. It is shown that what clients want, or do not want, during relationships with their nurses, is similar on both sides of the Atlantic. The findings reported in this paper are relevant to transcultural nursing, ethical care, the growth in consumerism, and client advocacy. The findings suggest also that there is a need for nursing research to focus on clinical outcomes in order to establish whether clients' perceptions of helping relationships have any relevance to favourable health outcomes, and the evidence base for clinical nursing.

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“…Scores range from -48 to +48 and a subject can complete the BLRI in 5 minutes. The BLRI has shown high levels of reliability ( r = .64 -.92) (Barrett-Lennard, 1962;Dawson, 1985;Gurman, 1977). Regarding validity, nine studies demonstrated internal reliability coefficients consistently exceeding intercorrelations among the BLRI subscales (Gurman, 1977).…”

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Relationships Between Nurse‐Expressed Empathy, Patient‐Perceived Empathy and Patient Distress

Olson

1995

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It is increasingly important that nursing care be associated with measurable patient outcomes. A correlational study examined relationships between nurse-expressed empathy and two patient outcomes: patient perceived empathy and patient distress. Subjects (N = 140) were randomly selected from RNs and patients on medical and surgical units in two urban, acute care hospitals. Nurse-subjects (N = 70) completed two measures of nurse-expressed empathy: the Behavioral Test of Interpersonal Skills and the Staff-Patient Interaction Response Scale. Patient-subjects (N = 70) completed the Profile of Mood States, the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist, and the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory. Findings indicated a negative relationship (r = .71, p< .001) between a set of empathy variables and a set of patient distress variables and a positive relationship between nurse-expressed and patient perceived empathy (r = .37-.47, p < .05). This study is one of the first to link behavioral measures of nurse empathy to patient outcomes.

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Hypertension, perceived clinician empathy, and patient self‐disclosure

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Do nurses and other professional helpers normally display much empathy?

Do nurses and other professional helpers normally display much empathy?

Clients' reflections on relationships with nurses: comparisons from Canada and Scotland

Relationships Between Nurse‐Expressed Empathy, Patient‐Perceived Empathy and Patient Distress

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