Trial reportBMC medical education2021
Improvement of the management of mental well-being and empathy in Chinese medical students: a randomized controlled study.
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Intervention to Promote Medical Students Empathy, Well-being and Study emotion-a Randomized Clinical Trial.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effectiveness of interventions designed to enhance and maintain medical student wellbeing: a systematic review.BMC medical education · 2026Pooled it
- The role of training and education for enhancing empathy among healthcare students: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials.BMC medical education · 2025Pooled it
- Primary-level and community worker interventions for the prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of well-being in low- and middle-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Attitudes and knowledge for CBT-based psychotherapy among medical students and residents in China: a survey study.BMC medical education · 2025Trial
- The Reliability and Validity of Chinese Version of JSPE-HP Among Doctors From Primary-Level Clinics: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- The relationship between self-efficacy, learning burnout, willingness to fulfill the contract and empathy of rural-oriented tuition-waived medical students of China: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Parenting styles and academic burnout in medical students: a moderated mediation model of resilience and stress.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Enhancing self-care education amongst medical students: a systematic scoping review.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Psychological distress and academic self-efficacy of nursing undergraduates under the normalization of COVID-19: multiple mediating roles of social support and mindfulness.BMC medical education · 2023Article
- Empathy alleviates the learning burnout of medical college students through enhancing resilience.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- Parental care and depressive symptoms among Chinese medical students: roles of empathy and gender.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- Relationship Between Medical Students' Empathy and Occupation Expectation: Mediating Roles of Resilience and Subjective Well-Being.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundAmong Chinese medical students, there is a high prevalence of mental health-related issues and low empathy. Effective strategies to improve this situation are lacking. This study aims to investigate the efficacy of the intervention courses designed to enhance the mental health and empathy of senior Chinese medical students.
methodsA total of 146 3rd - and 4th -year medical students were randomized to an intervention group (n = 74) and a control group (n = 72). A pilot study including 5 pre-clinical students and 5 interns was first carried out to determine the themes and content of the intervention courses. The designed courses were delivered in the intervention group once a month three times, while the control group had no specific intervention. Five self-assessment questionnaires, including the General Self-Efficacy (GSE) scale, Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 8 (SF-8), Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), and Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Health Care Provider Student version (JSE-HPS), were completed by the students before and one month after the courses to evaluate their levels of self-efficacy (SE), quality of life (QoL), depression, burnout, and empathy, respectively. Qualitative data were collected via e-mail two years after the intervention.
resultsCompared to the control group, the intervention group showed significantly higher scores for empathy (111.0 [IQR 102.0, 118.0] vs. 106.0 [IQR 93.0, 111.5]; P = .01) and QoL (32.0 [IQR 28.0, 35.0] vs. 29.5 [IQR 26.0, 34.0]; P = .04). The rate of depression was significantly lower in the intervention group than in the control group (13.5 % vs. 29.2 %; chi-square test, P = .02). However, no significant differences in self-efficacy (25.6 ± 4.8 vs. 24.3 ± 6.3; P = .16) or burnout (27.0 % vs. 34.7 %; Chi-square test, P = .31) were observed between the two groups.
conclusionsThe intervention courses had a positive impact on mental well-being and empathy in senior Chinese medical students, which might help provide novel information for their incorporation into the medical school curriculum.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02645643; Date of registration: 05/01/2016.
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