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- Title
Working nurses' empathy with patients in public hospitals.
- Authors
Dávila Pontón, Yolanda; Díaz Narváez, Víctor Patricio; Montero Andrade, Bernardo; López Terán, Joseline Janeth; Reyes-Reyes, Alejandro; Calzadilla-Núñez, Aracelis
- Abstract
Objective: to determine the levels of empathy in professional nurses of a high-complexity hospital, to relate age to empathy (and each one of its dimensions), and to establish if there are differences between these levels according to the type of working schedules. Method: comparative, correlational and cross-sectional design. The sample used (n=271) constituted 40.9% of the total number of nursing professionals. Psychometric properties of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy for Health Professionals were studied. Descriptive statistics were calculated: mean and standard deviation. The association between empathy and age was estimated using regression equations and statistical significance of the regression coefficients, after evaluating the type of curve using variance analysis. Results: the underlying model of three dimensions of empathy was identified. The values of the descriptive statistics observed were relatively low in empathy and its dimensions. Empathy levels were not associated with the age range. No differences in empathy were found between the types of work schedules. Variability was found in the dimensions: "compassionate care" and "Walking on the patient's shoes". Conclusion: these results show that the levels of empathy observed may imply a deficient performance in empathetic care for patients.
- Subjects
ECUADOR; RESEARCH; RELATIVE medical risk; EMPATHY; ANALYSIS of variance; CONFIDENCE intervals; CROSS-sectional method; MULTIVARIATE analysis; RESEARCH methodology; REGRESSION analysis; MANN Whitney U Test; NURSE-patient relationships; COMPARATIVE studies; PSYCHOMETRICS; CRONBACH'S alpha; PUBLIC hospitals; HOSPITAL nursing staff; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; SCALE analysis (Psychology); FACTOR analysis; CHI-squared test; STATISTICAL correlation; RECEIVER operating characteristic curves; STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2023, Vol 31, p1
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1518-8345.6591.3969