| Autor: |
Olive Tengera, Joyce Nankumbi, Gorrette Nalwadda, Patience Arinaitwe Muwanguzi, Tom Denis Ngabirano |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, Vol 13, Iss , Pp 100238- (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2214-1391 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.ijans.2020.100238 |
| Popis: |
Background: Empathy is an essential component of a caring relationship and critical to the provision of quality midwifery care. An empathetic approach enables midwives to understand each client’s perspectives, and is therefore fundamentally important to the provider-client relationship and improved healthcare outcomes. Many lack the capacity to provide empathic care, though it can be taught and reinforced in midwifery education. Objective: To assess the levels of empathy among midwives working on an Obstetrical and Gynecology unit in a Uganda referral hospital. Methods: This was a cross sectional study that was conducted among 185 midwives at a referral hospital in Uganda. Empathy was assessed using the Jefferson Scale of Empathy for health professionals (JSE- HP). Item scores were summated to generate total scores. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize empathy scores and other continuous variables. Nominal variables were summarized using frequencies and percentages. Chi-square tests were conducted to determine whether empathy scores differed significantly for different categories of variables and statistical significance was considered at a p-value |
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