Variability of empathy among dental students. Implications not yet understood in Latin America
| Autor: | Víctor Patricio Díaz-Narváez, Fanny Miranda-Carreño, Sebastián Galaz-Guajardo, Wilmer Sepúlveda-Navarro, Mario Zúñiga-Mogollones, Aracelis Calzadilla-Núñez, Pilar Torres-Martínez, Alejandro Reyes-Reyes |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, Vol 70, Iss 1 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0120-0011 2357-3848 |
| DOI: | 10.15446/revfacmed.v70n1.91207 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Empathy is a quality that allows dentists to build an intersubjective relationship with their patients, which, among other benefits, contributes to the effectiveness of the treatment. Objective: To determine whether there is variability in empathy levels between two populations of dental students and to describe theoretically the general implications of this variability for intervention strategies. Materials and methods: Exploratory cross-sectional study. The study population consisted of 1st-5th year dental students from the Universidad Santiago de Cali, Colombia (n=610; N=647) and the Universidad San Sebastián, Chile (n=535; N=800). In both groups, empathy was measured using the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (S-Version) Scale. Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) were used for data analysis. Internal consistency of data was estimated using Cronbach's alpha and the intraclass correlation coefficient. A factorial analysis of variance was performed, and three factors were studied: University (U), Course (C), and Sex (S). The statistical significance level used was α |
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