ReviewThe patient2022
What is the Most Valid and Reliable Compassion Measure in Healthcare? An Updated Comprehensive and Critical Review.
Review in The patient, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07327450 (Coaching Doctors and Nurses to Improve Ethical Decision-making in Team), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Coaching Doctors and Nurses to Improve Ethical Decision-making in Team: a Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial in 10 Departments of the Ghent University Hospital
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Patient-reported assessment of compassion in Spanish: a systematic review.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
- From 'Little Things' to 'Seagulls': A Mixed Methods Exploration of Patients' Experiences of Person-Centred Compassionate Care in General Medical and Surgical Wards.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- Further Development and Validation of a Measure of Compassionate Healthcare in Action.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- A feasibility study of an Evidence-informed, Competency-based, Accredited, Compassion Training (EnACT) program.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- A Cross-Sectional Study on Healthcare Providers' Perceived Compassion and Emotional Exhaustion Across Five Acute Geriatric Units: The Importance of Mutual Respect and Open Reflection.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Adaptation of the Sinclair Compassion Questionnaire Into Turkish: A Validity and Reliability Study.Evaluation & the health professions · 2026Article
- The Compassionate HEART Patient Questionnaire: Validation and Reliability of a Novel Measure of Relationship-Centered Care.Journal of patient-centered research and reviews · 2026Article
- Compassion assessment instruments in palliative care: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Validation of a short patient-reported compassion measure: the Sinclair Compassion Questionnaire-Short Form (SCQ-SF).BMJ open quality · 2025Article
- Adaptation and Validation of the Compassionate Capacity Scale for Portuguese Healthcare Students (CCS-PHS).Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Validity of the Chinese Mandarin version of the compassionate engagement and action scales for self and others for nursing students.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Cultivating compassion in care: evaluating a compassion-training intervention and exploring barriers to compassionate care in postgraduate medical education in Pakistan: a mixed-methods study.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- The Compassionate Engagement and Action Scale for Youths: psychometric properties in a clinical psychiatric Swedish sample.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Optimizing Compassion Training in Medical Trainees Using an Adjunct mHealth App: A Preliminary Single-Arm Feasibility and Acceptability Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- The Validation of the Sinclair Compassion Questionnaire (SCQ) and SCQ Short Form in an English-Speaking U.S. Population: A Patient-Reported Measure of Compassion in Healthcare.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- What role does compassion have on quality care ratings? A regression analysis and validation of the SCQ in emergency department patients.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Article
- The initial validation of an Evidence-informed, competency-based, Applied Compassion Training (EnACT) program: a multimethod study.BMC medical education · 2024Article
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- Conceptualization, use, and outcomes associated with compassion in the care of youth with childhood-onset disabilities: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Measures of empathy and compassion: A scoping review.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Our previous review of compassion measures in healthcare between 1985 and 2016 concluded that no available measure assessed compassion in healthcare in a comprehensive or methodologically rigorous fashion. The present study provided a comparative review of the design and psychometric properties of recently updated or newly published compassion measures. The search strategy of our previous review was replicated. PubMed, MEDLINE, CINAHL, and PsycINFO databases and grey literature were searched to identify studies that reported information on instruments that measure compassion or compassionate care in clinicians, physicians, nurses, healthcare students, and patients. Textual qualitative descriptions of included studies were prepared. Instruments were evaluated using the Evaluating Measures of Patient-Reported Outcomes (EMPRO) tool. Measures that underwent additional testing since our last review included the Compassion Competence Scale (CCS), the Compassionate Care Assessment Tool (CCAT)
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