The impact of educational interventions on the empathic concern of health professional students: A literature review

Everson, N; Levett-Jones, T; Pitt, V

The impact of educational interventions on the empathic concern of health professional students: A literature review

Everson, N

Levett-Jones, T

Pitt, V

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Citation:: Nurse Education in Practice, 2018, 31 pp. 104 - 111
Issue Date:: 2018-07-01

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dc.contributor.author	Everson, N https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6610-3983	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Levett-Jones, T https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4279-8957	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Pitt, V	en_US
dc.date.available	2018-05-22	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-07-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Nurse Education in Practice, 2018, 31 pp. 104 - 111	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1471-5953	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/129882
dc.description.abstract	© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This review aimed to identify programs that promote health professional students' empathic concern. Empathic concern is a key mediator of important outcomes for both patients and health professionals. However the empathic concern of health professional students tends to decline over the course of their studies. To date studies that have evaluated the impact of educational programs on empathic concern have not been reviewed. The databases ProQuest, CINAHL and Ovid were searched for studies that had evaluated educational programs for health professional students using a validated psychometric measure of empathic concern. Studies were graded using The Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies. Of 2977 identified studies, fifteen met inclusion criteria. Seven studies separately reported empathic concern scores. Four of the fifteen studies reported increased empathy scale scores after students took part in a program. Two studies received a strong quality rating, six a moderate rating and seven a weak rating. This review did not identify any studies that clearly demonstrated an increase in students' empathic concern after taking part in an educational program. Mindfulness based stress reduction, providing empathy content at each stage of a degree, programs that incorporate the film Wit, and Balint groups, may promote empathic concern. In light of the significant impact of health professionals’ levels of empathic concern on outcomes for patients and health professionals, further robustly designed research using appropriate psychometric scales is needed to inform the development of education programs in this area.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Nurse Education in Practice	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.nepr.2018.05.015	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Nursing	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Humans	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Empathy	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Students, Health Occupations	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Health Personnel	en_US
dc.title	The impact of educational interventions on the empathic concern of health professional students: A literature review	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	31	en_US
utslib.for	1110 Nursing	en_US
utslib.for	1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Students
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	31	en_US

Abstract:

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This review aimed to identify programs that promote health professional students' empathic concern. Empathic concern is a key mediator of important outcomes for both patients and health professionals. However the empathic concern of health professional students tends to decline over the course of their studies. To date studies that have evaluated the impact of educational programs on empathic concern have not been reviewed. The databases ProQuest, CINAHL and Ovid were searched for studies that had evaluated educational programs for health professional students using a validated psychometric measure of empathic concern. Studies were graded using The Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies. Of 2977 identified studies, fifteen met inclusion criteria. Seven studies separately reported empathic concern scores. Four of the fifteen studies reported increased empathy scale scores after students took part in a program. Two studies received a strong quality rating, six a moderate rating and seven a weak rating. This review did not identify any studies that clearly demonstrated an increase in students' empathic concern after taking part in an educational program. Mindfulness based stress reduction, providing empathy content at each stage of a degree, programs that incorporate the film Wit, and Balint groups, may promote empathic concern. In light of the significant impact of health professionals’ levels of empathic concern on outcomes for patients and health professionals, further robustly designed research using appropriate psychometric scales is needed to inform the development of education programs in this area.

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