RESEARCH QUESTION: What are the levels of patient-perceived and self-assessed physician empathy among internal medicine (IM) residents in two tertiary hospitals in Pasig City? Is there a significant difference in patient-perceived and selfassessed physician empathy levels between public and private tertiary hospitals? Background: Empathy is important because it has been speculated to have a positive effect on patient outcomes; it is a skill that can be learned and developed. OBJECTIVES: This study obtained quantitative measurements of patient-perceived and self-assessed physician empathy. Empathy levels between public and private tertiary hospitals were compared. GENERAL STUDY DESIGN : This study utilized a quantitative cross-sectional design, with surveys as the strategy for data collection. PARTICIPANTS: 162 out-patient department patients aged 19-75, and 69 IM residents were sampled from one private and one public tertiary hospital. OUTCOME MEASURES: The Jefferson Scale of Patient Perceptions of Physician Empathy (JSPPPE) and the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSE) were used to measure the empathy levels. ANALYSIS: Sample size calculation was done using OpenEpi. An alpha level of 0.05 was used for computing the independent samples t-test. RESULTS: Internal Medicine patients from the private hospital rated the physicians with higher empathy scores (mean=31.23) compared to their public hospital counterparts (mean=29.01), which is statistically significant (p=.0134). Residents from the private hospital also scored a higher self-assessed empathy score (mean=110.46) compared to physicians from the public hospital (mean=102.13), which is also statistically significant (p=.0147). CONCLUSION: This study provided preliminary information on the empathy levels of physicians in the Philippine setting between private and public hospitals, showing that physician empathy levels are consistently higher in the private hospital facility. The results can help hospitals incorporate or improve training in empathy in internal medicine residency programs, as empathy is known to affect patient health outcomes.
Patient Care

Objectives: A cross-sectional study was conducted to describe the relationship of the resident physicians' knowledge, attitudes and practices on end-of-life and demographic features, medical specialty, formal training on care of the dying, personal and clinical experience on care of the dying patients. Methods: A total of 67 resident trainees participated in the study. They were asked to answer the K-A-P questionnaire on end-of-life care. The data gathered were tallied using Microsoft Excel and analyzed using SPSS 10.0 statistical software. Results: More than half of the respondents have adequate knowledge (52.2 percent), positive attitude (53.7 percent), and have appropriate practices (53.7 percent). Nearly half (49.3 percent and 44.8 percent) of the resident physicians regarded themselves as satisfactory in knowledge and attitudes, nearly half (44.8 percent) and a third (38.8 percent) of the residents respectively assessed themselves as fair and satisfactory in end-of-life care practices. Using chi-square test, the relationship between the different physicians' characteristics and their knowledge, attitudes and practices was assessed. Males had adequate knowledge (68.2 percent) than females (44.4 percent) (p=0.068). More married individuals (77.7 percent) had positive attitude and appropriate practices than single individuals (50.0 percent) (p=0.167). Nearly two-thirds (63.3 percent) of third year and higher residents had positive attitude and appropriate practices than first and second year residents (45.9 percent) (p=0.156). More than two-thirds (66.7%) of those with formal training had more appropriate practices than those without formal training (46.5 percent) (p=0.113). No significant association between end-of-life care knowledge-attitudes-practices and these aforementioned physicians' characteristics was observed. In all other characteristics, relationship was far from being statistically significant. For knowledge, ENT-HNS, Family Medicine and Surgery residents had the most residents with adequate knowledge. The difference in the proportion of residents' knowledge across medical specialties was statistically significant (p=0.055). For attitude, Family Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Surgery had the most residents with positive attitude. The difference though was not statistically significant (p=0.156). For practices, Family Medicine, Child Health and Surgery had the most residents with appropriate practices. Here, the difference was statistically significant (p=0.010). Because of inadequate sample size however, chi-square test for these associations may not be valid. Those with personal experience with death of a loved one or a close friend (61.2 percent) had appropriate practice in end-of-life care than those without (33.3 percent). The difference was statistically significant (p=0.042). More of those with clinical experience on care of dying patients had appropriate practices (59.3 percent) than those without (30.8 percent). The difference was almost statistically significant (p=0.064). Among those residents with more than three years of clinical practice, 81.8 percent had positive attitude compared to only 45.5 percent both for less than two and 2-3 years of clinical practice. The difference likewise was of borderline significance (p=0.097). Lastly, relationship between the physician's own assessment of their knowledge, attitudes and practices and their actual knowledge, attitudes and practices Was also assessed using the same statistical test. Actual and personal assessment of end-of-life care, residents who rated themselves as either having a very satisfactory and satisfactory knowledge, attitudes and practices in end-of-life care had higher proportion of actual adequate knowledge, positive attitude and appropriate practices.
ATTITUDE ; PATIENT CARE ; TERMINAL CARE

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Continuity of Patient Care*

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of violence experience, emotional labor and job stress on clinical nurses' depression and to provide suggestions for improving the quality of patient care. METHODS: This research involved 257 clinical nurses who were working at an acute care hospital with at least 200 beds in S city and K province. Data were collected from May 23 to June 7 in 2014 and were analyzed using IBM SPSS version 21.0. RESULTS: The results show that 98.1% of subjects had violence experience in the past year and the violence experience included 44.4% physical threat, 37.5% verbal violence and 18.1% physical violence. The average scores were emotional labor 3.57, job stress 3.54 and depression 21.16. There were positive correlations among violence experience, emotional labor, job stress and depression (p<.01). There were also significant co-relationships between depression and violence experience (r=.21, p=.001), between depression and emotional labor (r=.48, p<.001) and between depression and job stress (r=.31, p<.001). CONCLUSION: The results suggest that it is necessary to set up guidelines for clinical nurses to manage violence, emotional labor and job stress in order to create better working environment and to improve quality of patient care.
Depression* ; Patient Care ; Violence*

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Humans ; Patient Care*

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Humans ; Internet* ; Patient Care*

Background: Dementia is a chronic progressive disease that ultimately affects the patient’s quality of life. It is therefore important to manage and treat patients with the disease holistically, addressing other factors such as the patient’s lifestyle, family problems and even economic strains. Objective: This meta-analysis was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a patient-centered intervention among patients with dementia as the primary objective. Methods: A meta-analysis of studies was done on elderly patients diagnosed with dementia undergoing usual care or patientcentered care. Eligible studies for the meta-analysis were searched on electronic databases of Pubmed, Cochrane, Grey Literature and by cross referencing. Three review authors independently carried out all aspects of study selection, ‘risk of bias’ assessment and data extraction. RevMan 5 software was used in the analysis of gathered data. Results: Results in favor of patient centered care interventions were seen in the studies. In the analyses of 3 studies pertaining to the improvement of quality of life as measured by QUALID, QOD AD and EURO QL scale, the combined results were noted to favor the intervention over the control. Pooled results showed effectiveness favoring PCC intervention as compared to usual care (mean difference: 0.26, 95% CI: -1.31, 0.80), though not statistically significant. Conclusion Patient-centered care intervention is effective in improving the quality of life of patients with dementia. PCC should be initiated whenever possible from the time of dementia diagnosis and through the stages of the diseas
Patient-centered care ; dementia

Objective: Our goal is to identify an operational roadmap of core elements in the set-up of the Philippines General Hospital Child Protection Unit (PGH-CPU) established in 1997, and Child Protection Network (CPN) established in 2002. This roadmap will guide future improvement needs for PGH-CPU and CPN and could help accelerate the set-up of future child protection units or networks. Methods: Using the 5 pillars of the Care Continuum for Child Maltreatment for categorization of deliverables — multidisciplinary intervention, training, governance, research/publication, and prevention — we identified operational deliverables (excluding patient numbers and outcomes) of the PGH-CPU and CPN. These were qualitatively analyzed to identify trends across the past 20-years and along 5 pillars of the Care Continuum. Results: Identification and qualitative analyses of documented deliverables reveal pillar-specific and time-dependent trends across 5-year periods. This trend analysis identified the core elements central to the set-up of a CPU and reveal an operational roadmap in the set-up of CPUs in resource-constrained settings. Conclusions Case study review and qualitative analyses identify core elements that comprise a roadmap for need based prioritization in the set-up of CPUs/CPNs towards a comprehensive care continuum for child maltreatment. The 20-year experience in a developing nation context validates the roadmap
Continuity of Patient Care

Background: Patient satisfaction is one of the essential components of quality healthcare. Patient satisfaction surveys have gained increasing attention as essential sources for identifying gaps and developing an action plan for quality improvement in healthcare organizations. Objective: To determine the factors affecting the level of patient satisfaction in the Outpatient Department of Cagayan Valley Medical Center. Methods: Descriptive correlational research design, 400 respondents were included. Instrument used was a validated questionnaire. Data were entered and analyzed through SPSS v. 22.0. Means, standard deviations, frequency counts, percentages, and Pearson r were used. Results and Discussion: The mean age of the respondents is 38.27 (±15.04). Majority are females. Most come from the Province of Cagayan; Majority are unemployed and were high school graduates. Department of Internal Medicine registered the highest number. Majority visited the OPD for about 1-3 times. Five out of six under Registration Process were good, except for waiting time at the clinic with poor evaluation. Nursing Care, Physician Care, and The Doctor’s Attitude towards You indicators were very good. Testing Services were good. Information was assessed as satisfied in 2 out 3 indicators and very satisfied in one indicator. For the overall satisfaction, the respondents were satisfied of the outpatient service. Age was positively correlated to Nursing Care, Physician Care, The Doctors Attitude towards You, and Overall Satisfaction. The frequency of OPD visit was found out to be positively correlated to Nursing Care, Physician Care, Doctors Attitude towards You, and Overall Satisfaction. However, the frequency of OPD visit was negatively correlated to the registration process. Conclusion The Satisfaction with Out-Patient Service survey tool comprehensively covered the registration process up to end of consultation in the Out-Patient Department. It is a powerful tool that could be used by the hospital management in improving its services.
Patient Satisfaction ; Nursing Care

Patient Care ; Nurses ; Communication