Empathy in Korean medical students: Findings from a nationwide survey

Park, Kyung Hye; Roh, HyeRin; Suh, Dae Hun; Hojat, Mohammadreza

doi:10.3109/0142159x.2014.956058

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“…In this study, we found that women were more empathic than men, which concurs with studies in most other countries [5,9,16,21], and in particular, with a study of students studying a five-year medical training program in northern China [19]. However, there was no gender difference in empathy in a previous study of Chinese medical students studying an eight-year program [7].…”

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confidence: 91%

“…The mean empathy score of the sample in the present study is similar to that found in Japan [5], China [7], Korea [9], India [10], and Iran [11] and relatively lower than the mean scores reported in some Western countries, such as Spain [12], America [13], and Germany [14]. Thus, Asian students tend to have similar levels of empathy but lower than do Western students (Additional file 1: Table S1 in Supplemental Data).…”

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confidence: 79%

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A multi-institutional and cross-sectional study on empathy in Chinese medical students: differences by student cadre or not, future career preference, and father’s education status

Ming-yi

et al. 2020

BMC Med Educ

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Background: The aims of this study were to examine the factor structure of the Chinese version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy for medical students (JSE-S) and investigate differences in empathy scores among Chinese medical students according to gender, student cadre or not, future career preference, and parents' education. Methods: Medical students from three universities completed an online questionnaire containing the JSE-S. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted to determine the factor structure, and group comparisons of empathy scores were examined via t-tests and analysis of variance. Results: Four factors emerged from the factor analysis: "perspective taking," "compassionate care," "standing in the patient's shoes," and an uninterpretable factor. The results indicated that students who were female, held positions as student cadres, preferred to become a doctor, and whose fathers had a high school education or below tended to have more empathy. Conclusions:Overall, the findings provide information on the dimensions of empathy applicable to Chinese medical students and confirm the factors found in the original measure. The dimensions have implications for developing empathy among medical students throughout the world. Educators can use the information to design interventions to foster empathy among students in the context of medical education reform in many countries, including China.

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confidence: 79%

A multi-institutional and cross-sectional study on empathy in Chinese medical students: differences by student cadre or not, future career preference, and father’s education status

Ming-yi

et al. 2020

BMC Med Educ

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“…For example a study among Chinese medical students revealed a total score of 109.6±12.09 (Wen et al 2013) whereas another study from Iran found a score of 105.1±12.9 (Rahimi-Madiseh et al 2010). Studies in Korea (Roh et al 2010;Park et al 2015), Japan (Kataoka et al 2009), and Kuwait (Hasan et al 2013) found similar total empathy scores like ours.…”

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confidence: 71%

The relationship between subjective well-being and empathy among Turkish medical students

Özçakır¹,

Ediz²,

Bilgel³

2016

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“…confined and unique to a more limited locality) contextual facets may explain the conflicting patterns in empathy change demonstrated by certain studies within the same country or region (e.g. certain studies within a given country, such as the USA or South Korea) that produce a pattern of empathy change that differs from that shown by the rest of the studies carried out within the same country (e.g. the USA and South Korea).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, the interplay between the general and specific contextual facets can be used to explain some of the findings of this review. For example, of the four South Korean studies, the only one to produce evidence of a significant decrease in empathy over the undergraduate years was a large, countrywide, cross‐sectional study, whereas the other three were comparatively smaller (but with large enough sample sizes) school‐based studies and one was a longitudinal study. It is very likely that the countrywide study showed a negative change (i.e.…”

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Is empathy change in medical school geo‐socioculturally influenced?

2019

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Context There is convincing evidence that physician empathy leads to better patient care. As a result, there has been considerable research interest in investigating how empathy changes during undergraduate medical studies. Early (generally North American) studies raised concerns that medical training causes a decline in empathy. More recent studies (conducted around the world) have begun to suggest that either a slight increase or decrease in empathy occurs during undergraduate medical training, which has led some to argue that empathy changes indiscriminately (with no discernible pattern). This paper explores whether there is evidence to suggest that empathy changes indiscriminately or with a discernible geo‐sociocultural pattern during undergraduate medical training. Methods Literature that investigated change in empathy during undergraduate medical training was reviewed. Cross‐sectional and longitudinal studies were tabulated separately according to their respective geographical locations. The tabulated results were analysed to investigate whether empathy changed similarly or differently within different geographical locations. Results The studies reviewed indicate similar patterns of empathy change within approximate geo‐sociocultural clusters. Whereas US studies predominantly show small but significant decreases in empathy, Far Eastern studies mostly show small but significant increases in empathy as undergraduates progress through the medical course. Conclusions These results suggest that change in empathy during undergraduate medical education is not as indiscriminate (patternless) as once thought. Additionally, these results support the notion that empathy is a locally construed global construct.

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Empathy in Korean medical students: Findings from a nationwide survey

Abstract: The JSE score of Korean medical students was lower than that of students in Western countries. The difference of gender and medical school admission system should be considered, and capability to apply empathy to clinical practice should be focused upon in medical training.

Cited by 66 publications

References 23 publications

A multi-institutional and cross-sectional study on empathy in Chinese medical students: differences by student cadre or not, future career preference, and father’s education status

A multi-institutional and cross-sectional study on empathy in Chinese medical students: differences by student cadre or not, future career preference, and father’s education status

The relationship between subjective well-being and empathy among Turkish medical students

Is empathy change in medical school geo‐socioculturally influenced?

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