Charitou Anastasia, Fifli Polyxeni, Vivilaki Victoria G
Department of Midwifery, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
Eur J Midwifery. 2019 Feb 12;3:4. doi: 10.18332/ejm/100612. eCollection 2019.
This paper is a report of a systematic review to identify and analyze studies of the measurement of empathy in midwives and other health professionals. Empathy has been recognized as an important factor in patient care, with positive outcomes for both patients and health professionals. There is a debate on the definition of empathy, on its measurement and on the possibility of improvement.
Searches were made of the CINAHL, SCOPUS, PubMed and PsychINFO databases using the terms empathy, clinical, midwifery, nursing, medical students, measurement, and health professionals, singly or in combination, to identify literature published in English between 2002-2015. The included papers were critically reviewed and a narrative synthesis was conducted.
In all, 22 papers met the inclusion criteria by studies that were conducted to measure the levels of empathy in a variety of health professionals and students. Their scores were analyzed in correlation with their sociodemographic factors.
Despite numerous studies, many correlations but also differences exist, indicating the complexity of empathy and the need to further study it.
本文是一篇系统综述报告，旨在识别和分析关于助产士及其他卫生专业人员共情测量的研究。共情已被视为患者护理中的一个重要因素，对患者和卫生专业人员都有积极影响。关于共情的定义、测量方法以及是否有可能提高共情水平，存在着争论。
使用“共情”“临床”“助产”“护理”“医学生”“测量”和“卫生专业人员”等术语，单独或组合在CINAHL、SCOPUS、PubMed和PsychINFO数据库中进行检索，以识别2002年至2015年间发表的英文文献。对纳入的论文进行严格评审，并进行叙述性综合分析。
共有22篇论文符合纳入标准，这些研究旨在测量各类卫生专业人员和学生的共情水平。分析了他们的得分与社会人口统计学因素的相关性。
尽管有大量研究，但存在许多相关性和差异，这表明共情的复杂性以及进一步研究的必要性。
