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- Title
Empathy assessment among nursing undergraduates.
- Authors
Mendes, Isabel Amélia Costa; Chavaglia, Suzel Regina Ribeiro; de Godoy, Simone; Silva, Ítalo Rodolfo; Almeida, Emerson Willian Santos; Souza, Mirella Castelhano
- Abstract
Objective: To verify the degree of empathy of students attending the nursing program of a public university located in southeastern Brazil and assess their profile regarding the domains: Perspective Taking, Interpersonal Flexibility, Altruism, and Affective Sensibility. Methods: Exploratory study conducted among undergraduate nursing students, using the Empathy Inventory (EI), a 40-item instrument designed to assess four dimensions of empathy. Results: Of the total of 193 participants, 88.6% were women, 78.7% were under 25 years of age, with a mean of 23.4 years old (SD=±4.8). Regarding the semester, 89 (46.%) were attending between the first and fourth semesters, 74 (38.4%) between the fifth and eighth semesters, and 30 (15.5%) were attending the ninth or tenth semester. The undergraduate students presented empathy skills. Conclusion: The nursing undergraduate students scored above the mean in all the dimensions assessed by the EI, showing a high level of empathy.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; RESEARCH; STATISTICS; EMPATHY; ALTRUISM; MANN Whitney U Test; UNDERGRADUATES; NURSING education; ABILITY; TRAINING; INTERPERSONAL relations; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; NURSING students; SOCIAL skills; STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis software; DATA analysis
- Publication
Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, 2021, Vol 34, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0103-2100
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37689/actaape/2021AO002235