ArticleAmerican journal of pharmaceutical education2018
Empathy and the Development of Affective Skills.
Article in American journal of pharmaceutical education, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- The Effectiveness of Community Nurse Training Programs to Improve Nurses' Competency in Community Settings: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of nursing practice · 2025Pooled it
- Keep the bedtime story: A daily reading ritual improves empathy and creativity in children.PloS one · 2026Trial
- Can virtual reality technology be used for empathy education in medical students: a randomized case-control study.BMC medical education · 2024Trial
- Scoping Literature Review of Digital Empathy Games in Healthcare Education and Training.European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe · 2026Article
- Towards patient-centered healthcare: a scoping review of soft skills training in medical schools.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Exploring the heart of care: delving into empathy among Jordanian pharmacists.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Text embedding models yield detailed conceptual knowledge maps derived from short multiple-choice quizzes.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Assessing self-reported empathy among chiropractic students at a South African university.The Journal of chiropractic education · 2026Article
- Equilibrium in empathic concern and personal distress predict identification with all humanity (IWAH) in Indian adolescents.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The effectiveness of digital interventions for enhancing empathy in adults: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Construction of an empathy ability index system for clinical nurses using the ADDIE model: a Delphi study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Unveiling multi-level determinants on empathy among Chinese primary and secondary school students: evidence from SSES 2019.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- What Drives Trust and Satisfaction in Health Welfare Social Cooperatives?Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The correlation between alexithymia and communication skills among undergraduate pharmacy students.Heliyon · 2025Article
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- The Post-Traumatic Growth Experience in Family Caregivers of People with Dementia: A Descriptive Qualitative Study.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
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- Exploring medical students' perceptions of empathy after cinemeducation based on Vygotsky's theory.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Influences of Nursing Professionalism, Empathy, and Clinical Decision-Making Ability on Shared Decision-Making Awareness among Hemodialysis Nurses.Journal of nursing management · 2024Article
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Abstract
Empathy, the most important human attribute that matters in every aspect of life, is essential in health care. Provision of patient-centered care requires empathic health care practitioners. The correlation between empathy of health care providers and improved patient adherence, satisfaction, and treatment outcomes is well-established. Scholarly evidence shows positive correlations between empathy and affective domains and confirms that soft skills are grounded in empathy. Empathic students have stronger affective skills and are capable to acquire, develop, reinforce, and display strong affective behaviors, abilities, and attitudes. As an innate quality, empathy is malleable. The level of empathy can be influenced by educational interventions inculcated into students during the entire curriculum, including both didactic and experiential training. The effectiveness of educational methods may be strengthened by activities that help students enhance empathy and achieve required affective skills. Empathy and the empathy-based affective skills essential in patient-centered care should be routinely and deliberately taught, modelled, and assessed across the continuum of health care curricula.
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