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Roberto Delgado-Bolton1, Montserrat San-Martín2, Adelina Alcorta-Garza3
1Comisión de Docencia, Hospital San Pedro, Logroño, La Rioja, España; Departamento de Diagnóstico por Imagen y Medicina Nuclear, Hospital San Pedro - Centro de Investigación Biomédica de La Rioja (CIBIR), Logroño, La Rioja, España.
Objective:
To characterise some of the environmental factors that are sensitive to cultural influence, and are involved in the development of medical empathy in Spanish and Latin American physicians-in-training.
Design:
Cross-sectional study using questionnaires.
Setting:
Primary care and specialized medicine centres of the Healthcare System of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain.
Participants:
Physicians-in-training MAIN MEASUREMENTS: : Empathy was measured using the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy, version for healthcare professionals (JSE-HP). Socio-demographic, academic, and professional background information was collected.
Results:
A total of 104 residents (67 from Spain and 32 from Latin America) answered and returned the questionnairess. The JSE-HP showed adequate psychometric properties. The empathy mean score of Spanish group was higher than that of the Latin American group (P=.01). Differences in the development of empathy were associated with: the development of professional models (P<.001), the positive encounter with other professionals (P=.001), and with a continuing medical education (P=.008).
Conclusions:
Some factors involved in the development of empathy that are sensitive to cultural influence have been characterised. The development of future research areas is suggested.
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