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A course in empathy.

D A Nardi

    Advancing Clinical Care : Official Journal of NOAADN
    |July 1, 1990
    PubMed
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    An empathy skills training course improved nursing students' ability to understand others' feelings. This study found lower Empathy Scale scores in students who completed the training, indicating enhanced empathic skills.

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    Area of Science:

    • Nursing Education
    • Psychology
    • Healthcare Communication

    Background:

    • Empathy is crucial for effective patient care in nursing.
    • Assessing and improving empathy skills in student nurses is an ongoing educational objective.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To evaluate the impact of an empathy skills training course on student nurses' measured empathy.
    • To determine if targeted training enhances the ability of student nurses to communicate understanding of patient feelings and experiences.

    Main Methods:

    • A posttest-only control group experimental design was employed.
    • Nursing students were randomly assigned to either a control or an empathy skills training group.
    • The Empathy Scale (Gazda, et al., 1977) was used to measure empathic skills.

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    Main Results:

    • Students who completed the empathy skills course achieved significantly lower scores on the Empathy Scale (p < .05), indicating higher empathy.
    • No significant correlation was found between Empathy Scale scores and participants' age.
    • No significant correlation was observed between Empathy Scale scores and years of experience in the healthcare field.

    Conclusions:

    • Empathy skills training can effectively improve measurable empathy in student nurses.
    • The training appears to enhance the ability to communicate an accurate understanding of another's feelings and experiences.
    • Demographic factors like age and prior healthcare experience did not significantly influence empathy scores in this study.