| Literature DB >> 26657550 |
Min Young Chun, Sang Ho Yoo, Hoon-Ki Park.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Recent studies have emphasized the importance of empathy in the physician-patient relationship (PPR). The purpose of this study was to examine the association between empathy scores, as measured by the student version of the Jefferson Scaleof Empathy, Korean edition (JSE-S-K), and PPR scores on the clinical performance examination (CPX).Entities:
Keywords: Empathy; Jefferson Scale of Empathy; Physician-patient relations
Mesh:
Year: 2015 PMID: 26657550 PMCID: PMC8814510 DOI: 10.3946/kjme.2015.27.4.283
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Korean J Med Educ ISSN: 2005-727X
Sociodemographic Characteristics of Subjects (n=104)
| Variable | Category | No. (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | 63 (60.6) |
| Female | 41 (39.4) | |
| Age (yr) | <25 | 51 (49.3) |
| 25–30 | 48 (46.2) | |
| >30 | 5 (4.8) | |
| Program | Undergraduate | 53 (51.0) |
| Graduate entry | 51 (49.0) | |
| Cohabitation | Grandparents and parents | 19 (18.3) |
| Parents and three or more siblings | 9 (8.7) | |
| Parents andone or two siblings | 67 (64.4) | |
| Parents only | 9 (8.7) | |
| Sibling No. | 0 | 10 (9.6) |
| 1 | 84 (80.8) | |
| 2 | 7 (6.7) | |
| 3 | 3 (2.9) | |
| Marriage | No | 102 (98.1) |
| Yes | 2 (1.9) | |
| Religion | No | 61 (58.7) |
| Yes | 43 (41.3) | |
| Personality type | Introversion (I) | 45 (43.2) |
| Extroversion (E) | 59 (56.7) | |
| Sensing (S) | 79 (76.0) | |
| Intuition (N) | 25 (24.0) | |
| Thinking (T) | 69 (66.3) | |
| Feeling (F) | 35 (33.7) | |
| Judging (J) | 64 (61.5) | |
| Perception (P) | 40 (38.5) |
Descriptive Statistics for Jefferson Scale of Empathy and Its Domains (n=104)
| Median | Range | |
|---|---|---|
| Domains | ||
| Affective | 84 | 38–117 |
| Cognitive | 12 | 3–21 |
| Total | 97 | 41–137 |
Differences in Scores on Jefferson Scale of Empathy according to Sociodemographic Characteristics of Subjects (n=104)
| Variable | Category | JSE-S-K, median (range) | p-value[ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | 96.5 (41–137) | 0.096 |
| Female | 97.8 (78–131) | ||
| Age (yr) | <25 | 96.8 (76–126) | 0.149 |
| ≥25 | 97.8 (41–137) | ||
| Program | Undergraduate | 94.7 (61–76) | 0.060 |
| Graduate entry | 99.3 (41–131) | ||
| Cohabitation | Grandparents and parents | 99.5 (84–130) | 0.058 |
| Parents and three or more siblings | 90.7 (80–113) | ||
| Parents and one or two siblings | 98.8 (41–137) | ||
| Parents only | 87.0 (75–115) | ||
| Marriage | No | 97.0 (41–137) | 0.336 |
| Yes | 108.0 (103–113) | ||
| Religion | No | 98.7 (75–130) | 0.503 |
| Yes | 96.3 (41–137) | ||
| Personality type | Introversion (I) | 97.6 (78–137) | 0.616 |
| Extroversion (E) | 96.5 (41–131) | ||
| Sensing (S) | 97.1 (41–131) | 0.914 | |
| Intuition (N) | 98.0 (80–137) | ||
| Thinking (T) | 97.3 (41–131) | 0.577 | |
| Feeling (F) | 97.0 (78–137) | ||
| Judging (J) | 95.8 (41–131) | 0.925 | |
| Perception (P) | 97.7 (76–137) |
JSE-S-K: Jefferson Scale of Empathy, S-version, Korean edition.
Calculated by Mann-Whitney test or Kruskal-Wallis one-way test.
Differences in Scores on Physician-Patient Relationship according to Sociodemographic Characteristics of Subjects (n=104)
| Variable | Category | PPR, median (range) | p-value[ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | 4.33 (3.6–5.7) | 0.151 |
| Female | 4.63 (4.3–5.0) | ||
| Age (yr) | <25 | 4.29 (3.5–5.7) | 0.032 |
| ≥25 | 4.42 (3.6–5.7) | ||
| Program | Undergraduate | 4.27 (3.5–5.3) | <0.001 |
| Graduate entry | 4.46 (3.6–5.7) | ||
| Cohabitation | Grandparents and parents | 4.43 (3.5–5.0) | 0.985 |
| Parents and three or more siblings | 4.27 (3.7–5.0) | ||
| Parents and one or two siblings | 4.40 (3.7–4.7) | ||
| Parents only | 4.43 (3.6–4.7) | ||
| Marriage | No | 4.40 (3.5–5.7) | 0.525 |
| Yes | 4.63 (4.3–5.0) | ||
| Religion | No | 4.39 (3.5–5.7) | 0.637 |
| Yes | 4.40 (3.7–5.7) | ||
| Personality type | Introversion (I) | 4.33 (3.5–5.0) | 0.536 |
| Extroversion (E) | 4.40 (3.6–5.7) | ||
| Sensing (S) | 4.38 (3.5–5.7) | 0.872 | |
| Intuition (N) | 4.44 (3.6–5.7) | ||
| Thinking (T) | 4.38 (3.7–5.7) | 0.686 | |
| Feeling (F) | 4.43 (3.5–5.7) | ||
| Judging (J) | 4.38 (3.5–5.7) | 0.860 | |
| Perception (P) | 4.40 (3.7–5.6) |
PPR: Physician-patient relationship.
Calculated by Mann-Whitney test or Kruskal-Wallis one-way test.
Correlation between Empathy and Physician-Patient Relationship Scores of Subjects[a)]
| JSE-S-K domain | CPX | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Affective | Cognitive | Total | PPR | |
| Affective | 1.000 | |||
| Cognitive | 0.340[ | 1.000 | ||
| Total | 0.984[ | 0.480[ | 1.000 | |
| PPR | 0.229[ | 0.048 | 0.232[ | 1.000 |
KJSE-S-K: Jefferson Scale of Empathy, S-version, Korean edition, CPX: Clinical performance examination, PPR: Physician-patient relationship.
Assessed by Spearman correlation analysis,
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Factors Predicting Physician-Patient Relationship Scores[a)]
| Dependent variable | Independent variable |
| R2 (adj. R2) | R2 change | F | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPR score | 1. Education program | 0.366 | 0.134 (0.125) | - | 15.453 | <0.001 |
| 2. Education program | 0.335 | 0.153 (0.170) | 0.019 | 10.157 | <0.001 | |
| JSE-S-K scores | 0.193 |
PPR: Physician-patient relationship.
Calculated by stepwise multiple linear regression analysis.