ArticleJournal of educational evaluation for health professions2018
The effect of an empathy role-play program for operating room nursing students.
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- Effects of roleplay simulation on improving quality management of nursing service.American journal of translational research · 2022Article
- Mediating effect of workplace violence on the relationship between empathy and professional identity among nursing students.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Analysis of the Effect of Holistic Nursing in the Operating Room Based on PDCA and Evidence-Based Nursing in the Otorhinolaryngology Operating Room: Based on a Retrospective Case-Control Study.Contrast media & molecular imaging · 2022Article
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- Creation of a Medical Student Training to Improve Comfort Providing Trauma-Informed Care to Sexual Assault Survivors.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2021Article
- The impact of communication education provided with creative drama method on midwifery undergraduates.European journal of midwifery · 2021Article
- Comparing Empathy Levels in Doctor of Pharmacy Students and Exemplary Pharmacist Preceptors.American journal of pharmaceutical education · 2020Article
- Effect of expert-patient teaching on empathy in nursing students: a randomized controlled trial.Psychology research and behavior management · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of a role-playing training program for empathetic communication with patients on empathy scores of operating room nursing students.
methodsThis clinical trial was carried out on 77 operating room nursing students from the first to the fourth years studied in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in the academic year 2017-2018. The intervention administered on the experimental group included a 12-hour training program with the theme of expressing empathy to patients using a role-playing technique. The Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Health Profession Students' Version was completed before, immediately after, and one month after the intervention by the samples. Comparison analysis was done among three stages.
resultsComparing the total mean empathy scores before intervention in the control group and the experimental one did not reveal a significant difference (P=0.50); however, the total mean empathy scores in the experimental group, immediately after and one month after the intervention, was higher than that in the control group (P<0.001).
conclusionEmpathy training through a role-playing technique was effective on improving the empathy scores of operating room nursing students and it also highlighted the fact that empathy could be promoted by education. Making changes in educational curriculum of operating room nursing students was indispensable in order to make them familiar with the concept of empathy in operating room.
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