Niveles de orientación empática en estudiantes de odontología de la Universidad del Desarrollo, sede Santiago (Chile)

Casas, Joyce Huberman; Hopp, María Paz Rodríguez; Providell, Sergio González; Narváez, Víctor Patricio Díaz

doi:10.1016/j.piro.2014.11.001

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“…The variability of the empathic response has also been previously observed, by other authors, in the gender variable in students of Dentistry [19][20][21][22] and Medicine. 23 The results observed in this study are consistent with those obtained by the authors mentioned above in terms of the existence of variability of empathic response that seems to be a rule rather than an exception [22][23][24][25][26][27][28] and shows the existence of different models for presentation of the means of empathy within the course estimated in consecutive academic years. As a result, variability occurs with empathic decline in different years of the course (not limited only to the third year).…”

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Reconsidering the ‘Decline’ of Dental Student Empathy within the Course in Latin America

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Introduction:The controversy over the presence of empathic decline within the course in students of medicine, dentistry and health sciences in general, has not fully been studied. This controversy could be partially solved if massive studies of empathy levels are made in similar cultural, social and economic contexts. Material and Methods:Empathy levels within the course were studied in eighteen dental schools from six countries in Latin America (2013). The mean of the empathy levels were used to study the behavior between first and fifth academic years. The values of empathy levels within the course were observed by applying the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy, the Spanish version. All these studies were cross-sectional. The value of means observed, were subjected to regression studies and further adjustment curves were obtained and the coefficient of determination were calculated. Results: Six different models of behavior were observed, which found that five of them suffer empathic decline within the course, but with different final results: in some the decline persists until the fifth academic year and in others, this decline 'recovers' persistently until the fifth academic year. The sixth model is characterized by a constant and persistent increase of levels of empathy within the course until the last academic year. Discussion: There are six different models for the behavior of means of levels of empathy within the course evaluated by a common methodology in eighteen dental schools from six countries of Latin America. These findings support the existence of variability of empathic response and a comprehensive approach is needed to find the causes that give rise to this variability. Conclusion:In dental students of Latin America, there is variability in the behavior of the distribution in means between the academic years of the dentistry schools examined in this study.

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Reconsidering the ‘Decline’ of Dental Student Empathy within the Course in Latin America

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“…Likewise, studies to measure the level of empathy in medical students in Asia [21] and nursing in Latin America [22,23] have shown an increase in levels as the undergraduate course increases. However, there are some studies where results were obtained in which the empathy levels of dental students decreased as the undergraduate course increased [7,24,25] and others in which there were no significant differences in the undergraduate course factor in odontology students [5,11,15,23,26,27], Medicine [28][29][30],…”

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Levels of Empathy Orientation after the Implementation of a New Curriculum

Erazo-Coronado¹,

Cruz-Villa²,

Durán-González³

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To compare the level of empathy orientation of the students in the Dentistry Program from the Universidad Metropolitana according to gender and levels of education after the implementation of a new curriculum. Material and Methods: An exploratory and transversal research was made. The studied population are the students from the first and the fifth academic year in the Dentistry Undergraduate Program from the Universidad Metropolitana (Barranquilla, Colombia) (n = 371, N = 482; 76.97% of the population) First: 92; Second: 83; Third: 60; Fourth: 71 and Fifth: 65, being females = 235 and males = 136. Data collection was done in March 2016 for the present study and in 2012. The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy was applied to participants. Results: For the "Academic Years" factor, the means in the first undergraduate years are similar with an increase in the last two undergraduate years; females have superior values than males. However, the behavior of these means is different when analyzing the combined levels of both factors. The female gender increases steadily in the first four years and decreases in the fifth year; The male gender goes down from first to second place and increases steadily until the fifth year surpassing the female in this last year. Conclusion: The general results obtained on empathy have improved compared to those results from 2012. The questions that obtained significant scores were those related to the cognitive component. This could be explained by the incorporation of a greater number of community activities into vulnerable population.

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“…It was observed that empathy levels are low in general empathy, as well as in each and every one of its components. This situation forces a separate discussion [1][2][3]6,[13][14][15][16][17].…”

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“…] This distribution has tried to be explained by attributing this decline to different factors: stress [18,19], and academic load 20, among others. However, there are studies that have observed that such decline has not been found in students of dentistry and medicine [1,3,6,13,14,21], which suggests that "decline" could be a particular case of different models of the behavior of empathy through the years [14]. This situation suggests that any intervention aimed at raising empathy in students should not be based on the idea of the existence of only a standard model.…”

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Empathy, Components of Empathy and Curricular Evaluation of the Faculty of Dentistry, Evangelical University of El Salvador

Díaz-Narváez

Estrada-Méndez

Arévalo-López

et al. 2017

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Objective: To estimate empathy levels in general and empathic growth potential in dental students. Material and Methods: This is an exploratory, transversal study. The study population is made up of students from the first to fifth academic year of the career of dentistry of the Evangelical University of El Salvador (El Salvador) (148/240, 61.67% of the population studied). The participants were given the Jefferson Empathy Medical Scale, the Spanish version for medical students, validated in Chile and Mexico, and culturally adapted in El Salvador. A bifactorial variance analysis (model III) was applied to find differences in the means between the courses, between the genders and in the interaction between these two factors. The data were described using simple arithmetic graphs, processed with SPSS 22.0. Total growth potential was estimated. Results: Differences were found between academic years, but not in gender of empathy in general and in its components. The levels of empathy and its components are low in relation to other studies. The behavior of the levels of empathy agrees with the concept of empathic decline. The masculine gender presented levels of empathy, in absolute values, greater than the feminine. There is considerable potential for growth in empathy and that of its components. Conclusion: The behavior of the levels of empathy observed in this work does not agree with the concept of empathic decline. The differences observed between the genders were not consistent with those reported by other authors and it is possible that these findings constitute further evidence that empathy itself is not a female attribute.

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Niveles de orientación empática en estudiantes de odontología de la Universidad del Desarrollo, sede Santiago (Chile)

Cited by 14 publications

References 8 publications

Reconsidering the ‘Decline’ of Dental Student Empathy within the Course in Latin America

Reconsidering the ‘Decline’ of Dental Student Empathy within the Course in Latin America

Levels of Empathy Orientation after the Implementation of a New Curriculum

Empathy, Components of Empathy and Curricular Evaluation of the Faculty of Dentistry, Evangelical University of El Salvador

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