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| Title |
The effects of empathy skills training on nursing students’ empathy and attitudes toward elderly people
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| Published in |
BMC Medical Education, August 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12909-018-1297-9 |
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| Authors |
Sakineh Gholamzadeh, Maryam Khastavaneh, Zahra Khademian, Soraya Ghadakpour |
| Abstract |
Nursing students' empathy and positive attitudes toward elderly people could help provide improved elderly care in their future practice. This study aimed to investigate the effects of empathy skills training on nursing students' empathy and attitudes toward elderly people. This quasi-experimental study was conducted in Yasuj, Iran in 2014. The sample consisted of 63 students at Hazrat Zeinab Nursing and Midwifery School who were randomly divided into a control (n = 31) and an intervention group (n = 32). The intervention group attended an eight-hour workshop on empathy skills that was presented through lectures, demonstration, group discussions, scenarios, and questioning. The data were collected using the Persian versions of Kogan's Attitudes towards Old People Scale and Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy-Health Professionals Version. Then, the data were entered into the SPSS software, version 19 and were analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square test, t-test, and repeated measures analysis of variance. The results showed that the empathy skills training program had a significant impact on the students' mean scores of empathy and attitudes toward elderly people (p < 0.001). The intervention group's mean score of empathy increased from 77.8 (SD = 10.7) before the intervention to 86 (SD = 7.3) immediately after that and 85.2 (SD = 8.9) 2 months later. Their mean score of attitude also increased from 110.8 (SD = 10.9) before the intervention to 155.2 (SD = 23.4) immediately after the intervention and 158.6 (SD = 23.2) 2 months later. Additionally, the empathy and attitude scores of the intervention group were significantly higher than those for control group immediately and 2 months after the intervention. Empathy skills training improved the nursing students' empathy and attitudes towards elderly people. Therefore, empathy training is recommended to be incorporated into the undergraduate nursing curriculum. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |
| Spain | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 2 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 5 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 249 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 249 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 29 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 27 | 11% |
| Researcher | 15 | 6% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 5% |
| Other | 49 | 20% |
| Unknown | 102 | 41% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 58 | 23% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 24 | 10% |
| Psychology | 18 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 5 | 2% |
| Other | 27 | 11% |
| Unknown | 107 | 43% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 December 2019.
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#696
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#81,125
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