Assessing medical student empathy in a family medicine clinical test: validity of the CARE measure
Autor: | Joyce Pui Yan Tsang, Carlos K. H. Wong, Colman Siu Cheung Fung, Weng Y. Chin, Julie Y. Chen |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male China medicine.medical_specialty Students Medical media_common.quotation_subject psychometric assessment education Empathy Test validity clinical consultation Simulated patient Education Formative assessment primary care Cronbach's alpha medicine Humans empathy media_common validation Physician-Patient Relations undergraduate lcsh:LC8-6691 lcsh:R5-920 lcsh:Special aspects of education business.industry communication Reproducibility of Results General Medicine Confirmatory factor analysis Test (assessment) Global Rating medical student Family medicine Female Educational Measurement Family Practice business lcsh:Medicine (General) Education Medical Undergraduate Research Article Clinical psychology |
Zdroj: | Medical Education Online, Vol 20, Iss 0, Pp 1-6 (2015) Medical Education Online; Vol 20 (2015) Medical Education |
ISSN: | 1087-2981 |
Popis: | Introduction : The Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) measure developed and validated in primary care settings and used for general practitioner appraisal is a 10-item instrument used by patients to assess doctors’ empathy. The aim of this study is to investigate the validity of the CARE measure in assessing medical students’ empathy during a formative family medicine clinical test. Method : All 158 final-year medical students were assessed by trained simulated patients (SPs) – who completed the CARE measure, the Jefferson Scale of Patient Perceptions of Physician Empathy (JSPPPE), and a global rating score to assess students’ empathy and history-taking ability. Results : Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis identified a unidimensional structure. The CARE measure strongly correlated with both convergent measures: global rating ( ρ =0.79 and |
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