Empathy for pain in medical students and its influencing factors
10.3760/cma.j.cn115682-20210514-02084
- VernacularTitle:医学生疼痛共情水平及影响因素分析
- Author:
Xuanyi BI
1
;
Jing SHANG
;
Jingting WANG
;
Xuchun YE
Author Information
1. 海军军医大学护理系，上海 200433
- Keywords:
Students, medical;
Empathy for pain;
General empathy;
Influencing factors
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2021;27(31):4227-4232
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To explore the current situation of empathy for pain in medical students and analyze its influencing factors.Methods:This study was a cross-sectional study. From June 2018 to January 2019, convenience sampling was used to select 768 undergraduate students from 4 medical universities in Shanghai, Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province as the research subject. The General Information Questionnaire, the Chinese version of the Empathy for Pain Scale (EPS) , and the Chinese version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI-C) were used for investigation. Multiple linear regression was used to analyze the influencing factors.Results:Among 768 medical students, the total score of EPS was (2.56±0.66) , of which the physical and mental discomfort reaction dimension score was (2.28±0.74) , and the empathy reaction dimension score was (3.39±0.79) . The results of multiple linear regression analysis showed that major, being the only child or not, often watching violent movies or not, and personal distress were the influencing factors of medical students' physical and mental discomfort reaction with a statistical difference ( P<0.05) , explaining 20.1% of the variation in total. Gender, grade, clinical learning experience, viewpoint selection, empathic attention and imagination were the influencing factors of the empathy reaction of medical students also with a statistical difference ( P<0.05) , explaining 19.7% of the variation in total. Conclusions:The empathy for pain of medical students is at a moderate level and is affected by many factors. Medical education should strengthen the cultivation of empathy behavior practice ability, and multi-dimensionally cultivate and evaluate students' empathy ability in combination with patients' evaluation.
