Mohan Kumar P, Praveen D, Praveen G, Arun Bhupathi P, Ravi Kanth M, Uloopi K S
Department of Periodontics and Implantology, Vishnu Dental College, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, Vishnu Dental College, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India.
J Patient Exp. 2021 Nov 12;8:23743735211056521. doi: 10.1177/23743735211056521. eCollection 2021.
Empathy is vital in ensuring the quality of the patient-clinician relationship. Empathy in the health care setting is the ability to understand a patient's experiences and feelings and communicate this understanding for better clinical outcomes in dental treatments. The study aimed to compare levels of empathy in post-graduate dental students across the different years of the master's degree course. Questionnaire forms distributed among post graduate students and awareness, knowledge, attitude, and empathy levels towards their patients were assessed. Responses of all the post-graduate students of all specialties in a dental institute were subjected to statistical analysis to know and compare their empathy towards the patients during their clinical practice and research throughout their three-year master's degree. The mean empathy score was 52.01 (maximum of 100), with a standard deviation of 6.69. The empathy scores decreased slightly from the first to the third year of the master's degree. The participant's age, marital status, place of residence, and specialties of dental post-graduation showed much significant difference in empathy levels. The study found slight significant gender differences in empathy among the participants. The empathy scores declined gradually very slightly as they were promoted to the next level in the course. The increase in empathy levels found in this study is more significant than those reported in similar studies due to the inclusion of educational and orientation programs at the time of admission into post-graduate studies.
同理心对于确保患者与临床医生关系的质量至关重要。在医疗环境中，同理心是指理解患者经历和感受并传达这种理解以在牙科治疗中获得更好临床结果的能力。该研究旨在比较硕士学位课程不同年份的牙科研究生的同理心水平。对研究生发放问卷并评估他们对患者的认知、知识、态度和同理心水平。对一所牙科机构中所有专业的研究生的回答进行统计分析，以了解和比较他们在为期三年的硕士学位临床实践和研究期间对患者的同理心。同理心平均得分为52.01（满分100），标准差为6.69。从硕士学位的第一年到第三年，同理心得分略有下降。参与者的年龄、婚姻状况、居住地点和牙科研究生专业在同理心水平上存在显著差异。该研究发现参与者之间在同理心方面存在轻微的显著性别差异。随着他们在课程中升入下一个级别，同理心得分非常轻微地逐渐下降。由于在研究生入学时纳入了教育和培训项目，本研究中发现的同理心水平的提高比类似研究中报告的更为显著。
