Empathy and Components of Empathy in Mexican Nursing Students: Cross-Sectional Design

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https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.37.2.152.41%20

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empathy, gender identity, students, nursing

Abstract

Introduction: Empathy is important for the nursing professional and must be incorpo rated into the training of undergraduate students based on solid empirical evidence. The  objective of this work was to characterize the empathic situation of the examined students.

Materials and methods: It is an exploratory, cross-sectional work with 331 students from  the School of Nursing of the Autonomous University of Coahuila, Mexico. The Jefferson  Medical Empathy Scale Cronbach’s alpha and intraclass correlation were estimated to study the reliability of the  data. A bifactorial analysis of variance was applied to determine differences between cour ses, genders and interaction between factors, regression models of the means of empathy  across courses. 

Results: There is adequate reliability of the data. There are differences between courses  for empathy and the compassionate care component, between genders in the components  “compassionate care and ability to understand others”. Low empathic growth that does not  fit the decline model. 

Conclusion: The empathic behavior of students obeys non-linear models; The phenome non of empathic decline does not manifest itself: the growth of empathy and its compo nents is low; the growth of empathy in the “compassionate care” component is greater in  men; in the component “taking the patient’s perspective” it is higher in women and the  ability to understand others is low and similar between genders. 

Keywords: empathy, gender identity, students, nursing. 

Author Biographies

Víctor Patricio Díaz-Narváez, Universidad Andres Bello. Santiago. Chile.

Profesor Investigador. Facultad de Odontología. Universidad Andres Bello. Santiago. Chile.

 

Irma Andrade Valle, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, México

Ph. D. en Educación. Profesora titular; Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. Escuela de  Licenciatura en Enfermería, Unidad Torreón, Coahuila, México. 

Susana Facio Arciniega, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, México

Ph.D. en Medicina. Profesora titular, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. Escuela de  Licenciatura en Enfermería, Unidad Torreón, Coahuila, México. 

Laura Alemán de la Torre, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, México

 Ph.D. en Salud Pública. Profesora titular, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. Escuela de  Licenciatura en Enfermería, Unidad Torreón, Coahuila, México. 

 

Alma Rosa Quiroz Guerra, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, México

Ph.D. en Desarrollo Educativo. Profesora titular, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila.  Escuela de Licenciatura en Enfermería, Unidad Torreón, Coahuila, México. . Orcid: 

Aracelis Calzadilla Núñez, Universidad Bernardo OHiggins, Santiago, Chile

MD. Especialista en Psiquiatría Infantil y del Adolescente. Profesora investigadora;  Universidad Bernardo OHiggins, Santiago, Chile.

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2022-01-19

How to Cite

Díaz-Narváez, V. P., Andrade Valle, I. ., Facio Arciniega, S. ., Alemán de la Torre, L. ., Quiroz Guerra, A. R. ., & Calzadilla Núñez, A. . (2022). Empathy and Components of Empathy in Mexican Nursing Students: Cross-Sectional Design. Salud Uninorte, 37(2), 329–344. https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.37.2.152.41

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