ArticleJournal of patient experience2025
I Want to be Known as a Whole Human Being: A Qualitative Study About Patients' Experiences of Empathy in Health Care.
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- This Is My Story (TIMS), a Five-Year Thematic Analysis of Patient Narratives from a Novel Intervention in an Academic Hospital.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Empathy is crucial in forming a good relationship between patients and healthcare providers. Research on empathy in health care has largely focused on healthcare providers and students and less on the patient's perspective. This study's aim was to investigate patients' experience of empathy in healthcare interactions, to better understand and accommodate to patients' needs. Semi-structured interviews with patients were analyzed inspired by constructivist Grounded Theory. Three categories were formed-"I need you to focus on me," "I am more than my disease" and "I know myself and the disease" and the core category: "I want to be known as a whole human being." This study has provided a deeper insight on how empathy can be operationalized in healthcare interactions from a patient perspective. Patients experience health care interactions as dependent on empathic engagement and hampered by inequity due to knowledge hierarchies and lack of personal sharing. This study emphasizes patientś need for doctors to be more personal, and to experience a mutual sharing with their doctors to not feel vulnerable or left out in the consultation.
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