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
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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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
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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