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Area of Science:

  • Medical Education
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Empathic decline is a recognized phenomenon in healthcare professionals.
  • Previous studies suggest empathy decreases during medical and nursing training.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if nursing students in Chile experience empathic decline.
  • To assess empathy levels using the Jefferson Scale of Empathy across different study stages.

Main Methods:

  • A cross-sectional study of 756 nursing students from two Chilean universities.
  • Data analyzed using statistical methods including normality tests, ANOVA, and reliability analysis.

Main Results:

  • Empathy levels remained constant or increased among nursing students throughout their academic programs.
  • No evidence of the classical empathic decline was observed in the studied populations.

Conclusions:

  • The findings contradict the notion of inevitable empathic decline in nursing education.
  • Traditional factors contributing to empathic erosion may not be universally applicable or may operate differently in this context.