澳大利亚整脊学生的同理心水平。
Empathy levels in Australian chiropractic students.
作者信息
Innes Stanley I, Simpson J Keith
出版信息
J Chiropr Educ. 2022 Oct 1;36(2):110-116. doi: 10.7899/JCE-21-16.
OBJECTIVE
Empathy is an important modifiable quality of health care practitioners that relates to the quality of patient care. The educative process may adversely affect the empathy levels of health care students at key phases of training. This topic remains unexplored in chiropractic students to date.
METHODS
A voluntary and anonymous questionnaire was distributed to all chiropractic students in an Australian university-based program in April 2021. This questionnaire recorded age, sex, year of study, and Toronto Empathy Questionnaire scores.
RESULTS
Chiropractic student empathy scores approximated those of other Australian health care students. No statistical differences were found when comparing the mean scores of empathy levels across the 5 student cohorts. The empathy levels of female chiropractic students' were significantly higher than those of the male chiropractic students.
CONCLUSION
This study provides a baseline from which further explorations on empathy may be conducted in chiropractic students. This holds the potential to improve practitioners' quality of life and patient outcomes and for educators to identify subject matter that may negatively affect empathy levels.
目的
同理心是医疗从业者一项重要的可改变特质，与患者护理质量相关。教育过程可能会在培训的关键阶段对医学生的同理心水平产生不利影响。迄今为止，整脊学生中的这一话题尚未得到探索。
方法
2021年4月，一份自愿且匿名的调查问卷被分发给澳大利亚一所大学整脊专业项目的所有学生。该问卷记录了年龄、性别、学习年份以及多伦多同理心问卷得分。
结果
整脊专业学生的同理心得分与其他澳大利亚医学生的得分相近。比较5个学生群体的同理心水平平均得分时，未发现统计学差异。女性整脊专业学生的同理心水平显著高于男性整脊专业学生。
结论
本研究提供了一个基线，据此可对整脊专业学生的同理心进行进一步探索。这有可能改善从业者的生活质量和患者治疗效果，并使教育工作者能够识别可能对同理心水平产生负面影响的主题。
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