Empathy in Brazilian nursing professionals: A descriptive study
Background:Essential for the help relation, empathy is the ability to understand, share, and perceive the subjective experience of other human beings.Objective:The objective in this non-experimental, exploratory, and descriptive research was to verify, observe, and document empathy in nursing profes...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2015
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| In: |
Nursing ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 367-376 |
| Further subjects: | B
Nursing
B Education B Empathy B Social skills B Human Resources |
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| Summary: | Background:Essential for the help relation, empathy is the ability to understand, share, and perceive the subjective experience of other human beings.Objective:The objective in this non-experimental, exploratory, and descriptive research was to verify, observe, and document empathy in nursing professionals.Research design:Non-experimental, exploratory, and descriptive research. Participants and research context: the study was conducted at two large hospitals, one public and the other private, across all shifts. The sample included 159 individuals. A questionnaire was used to identify sociodemographic characteristics and the empathy inventory was applied.Ethical considerations:This study received approval from the Research Ethics Committee at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, opinion 1348/2011, and authorization from the health institutions involved.Findings:The association tests demonstrated that professionals working in the night shift and in a work scale rotation scheme, older professionals, and professionals with longer professional experience are less empathetic. On the other hand, professionals working in the day shift and in a single shift are more empathetic. Other influential factors are the time on the job, education, and work shift.Conclusion:There is a lack of empathy studies in professional practice contexts, in human resource development programs, and throughout the professional education process. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-0989 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0969733014534872 |