Psychometry and Cut-off Points of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy in Medical Students in Central America and the Caribbean.

Autor:	Díaz-Narváez VP; Dental faculty, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile., Calzadilla-Núñez A; Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Bernardo OHiggins, Santiago, Chile., Reyes-Reyes A; Faculty of Social Sciences and Communications, Universidad Santo Tomás, Concepción, Chile., Silva-Vetri MG; Dental faculty, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic., Torres-Martínez P; Dental faculty, Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción, Chile., González-Díaz ES; Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central del Este, San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic., Alonso-Palacio LM; Faculty Division of Health Sciences, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia., Bilbao-Ramírez JL; Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Metropolitana, Barranquilla, Colombia., Estrada-Méndez N; Dental faculty, Universidad Evangélica de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador., Aparicio DE; Faculty of Medicine, Corporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez, Cartagena, Colombia., Fajardo-Ramos E; Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia., Ferrero-Otero JC; Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia., Barrera-Gil D; Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Andres Bello, San Salvador, El Salvador., Ríos-García AL; Faculty Division of Health Sciences, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Puerto Rico health sciences journal [P R Health Sci J] 2022 Mar 17; Vol. 41 (1), pp. 22-28.
Abstrakt:	Objective: The objective of this study was to determine cut-off points that can be used to differentiate measures of empathy, which would then be classified as high, medium, or low. To do so, we used data from students from 7 medical schools in Colombia, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic, after determining the psychometric properties of the 3-dimensional model of empathy in the Jefferson Scale of Empathy, S-version (for medical students). Materials and Methods: This non-experimental descriptive study had a sample that consisted of 6291 students. The structure and factor invariance were analyzed by country and sex. A hierarchical cluster analysis and a bifactorial analysis of variance were applied. Results: The measure of empathy was reliable on the global scale (α = .82; ω = .88). A confirmatory factor analysis showed that the original model was replicable and adjusted to the data (comparative fit index [CFI] = .90; goodness of fit index = .94), while the multigroup analysis allowed to assume an invariant factor structure by country and gender (ΔCFI < .01). Tables were constructed with cut off points for empathy and its dimensions. Discussion and Conclusion: Our study solves the problem of comparing the scores and the levels of empathy observed in the medical students at different schools of medicine, making said comparisons within and between countries and between genders. The instrument used has adequate psychometric properties and the cut-off values obtained allow the classifying of people with lower or higher levels of empathy.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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