Rafaqat Wardah, Sami Ashmal, Ibrahim Muhammad Talal, Ibad Hamza, Awais Sheharbano, Memon Ayesha, Shahbaz Fatima Farrukh, Ahmed Daniyaal, Zindani Shahzaib, Leghari Abdul Lateef, Saleem Sarah
Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
J Patient Exp. 2022 Jun 7;9:23743735221106603. doi: 10.1177/23743735221106603. eCollection 2022.
Empathy is a cognitive attribute that forms the cornerstone for good doctor-patient encounters. The formative period for the development of empathy toward patients begins with clinical encounters within medical school. An individual medical student's empathy levels may in part be a product of their resilience and perfectionist attitudes. A cross-sectional study with 320 medical students across all years of study was conducted to determine the correlation of perfectionism and resilience with clinical empathy in medical students. The JSE-S, CD-RISC 10, and APS-R scales were used to assess levels of empathy, resilience, and perfectionism, respectively. The study found that a positive correlation exists between resilience ( = 0.174) and academic year with empathy, and a negative correlation exists between maladaptive perfectionism and empathy ( = -0.138). The resilience score declined progressively as the year of study progressed with a statistically significant. Mean empathy scores were lowest in fifth-year students (96.8 ± 12.5) and highest in third-year students (107.8 ± 13.2). Further longitudinal studies are necessary to better understand the impact of resilience and perfectionism on empathy.
同理心是一种认知属性，是良好医患关系的基石。对患者同理心发展的形成期始于医学院的临床接触。一名医学生的同理心水平可能部分取决于他们的复原力和完美主义态度。一项针对320名各年级医学生的横断面研究旨在确定完美主义和复原力与医学生临床同理心之间的相关性。分别使用JSE-S、CD-RISC 10和APS-R量表来评估同理心、复原力和完美主义水平。研究发现，复原力（=0.174）与学年和同理心之间存在正相关，适应不良的完美主义与同理心之间存在负相关（=-0.138）。随着学习年份的增加，复原力得分逐渐下降，具有统计学意义。平均同理心得分在五年级学生中最低（96.8±12.5），在三年级学生中最高（107.8±13.2）。有必要进行进一步的纵向研究，以更好地了解复原力和完美主义对同理心的影响。
