Levels of Empathy in Undergraduate Healthcare Professions Students

Noel M Kerr; Ashley M. Tegge

doi:10.20467/1091-5710-21.1.41

Levels of Empathy in Undergraduate Healthcare Professions Students

Noel M Kerr, Ashley M. Tegge

Illinois Wesleyan University

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Abstract

Researchers sought to identify whether a relationship exists between empathy levels in baccalaureate health-care-professions students who have and have not identified a projected professional specialty upon entry into practice. A convenience sample of students with declared majors in health-care professions ( N = 202) completed a 28-item questionnaire. Empathy in nursing students with a projected specialty was significantly higher than in students in other health-care majors with projected specialties. Gender and age significantly influenced empathy in all students who had a projected specialty. The findings expand our current understanding of empathy and what may influence empathy levels in students planning to enter health care.

Original language	American English
Journal	International Journal of Human Caring
Volume	27
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.20467/1091-5710-21.1.41
State	Published - 2017

Keywords

Jefferson Scale of Empathy–Health Profession Student version
empathy
health-care professionals

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences
Nursing

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