ArticleHealth science reports2025
The Reliability and Validity of Chinese Version of JSPE-HP Among Doctors From Primary-Level Clinics: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Article in Health science reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background and Aims: Primary-level clinics play an important role in providing healthcare services and maintaining citizens' health in China. However, there is limited research on empathy among Chinese doctors in primary care settings. We will translate the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy for physicians and health professional (JSPE-HP) into Chinese and evaluate its reliability and validity among doctors from primary-level clinics and the condition of doctor empathy will also be evaluated. Methods: Two research assistants, fluent in both English and Chinese, were invited to evaluate our translation of the JSPE-HP. From April to July in 2023, a cross-sectional survey was then administered to a convenience sample of 459 doctors from primary-level clinics in Zhejiang Province, China. The quality of the scale was tested using internal consistency reliability, composite reliability (CR), and convergent and discriminant validity. Results: The Chinese version of the JSPE-HP scale comprises 20 items across three dimensions. The scale had an overall Cronbach's α of 0.85, and the CRs of the three dimensions were 0.88, 0.81 and 0.74 respectively, indicating satisfactory reliability. Average variance extracted ranged from 0.43 to 0.59 and the Chi-squared difference between the constrained and free models was significant, indicating convergent and discriminant validity. The mean total score for the doctors was 110.52 (SD = 15.80). It was 75.43 after transformation. Conclusion: The reliability and validity of the scale is acceptable, and it could serve as an evaluation tool for doctors of Chinese background. The empathy level of doctors from primary-level clinics should be improved further.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.