Özbaş Nilgün
Yozgat Bozok University Akdağmadeni Health College Nursing Department, Akdağmadeni Health College Nursing Department, Surgical Diseases Nursing, Yozgat, Türkiye.
Pain Manag Nurs. 2025 Aug;26(4):449-455. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2025.03.009. Epub 2025 Apr 29.
This study aimed to determine the relationship between surgical nurses' empathy skills and their knowledge of and attitudes to pain.
A quantitative, correlational research study design, one of the quantitative methods, was employed.
The study was conducted between March and August 2024 in the surgical units (surgical clinics, operating rooms, and intensive care units) of a research and practice hospital and a city hospital with 242 nurses in the central county of a province in Türkiye. Data were collected using a Nurse Information Form, the Pain Knowledge and Attitudes Survey, and the Basic Empathy Scale.
The mean scores were 16.38 ± 4.65 (40.01%) for pain knowledge and attitudes, 29.25 ± 6.48 for cognitive empathy, and 32.66 ± 5.78 for emotional empathy. Positive correlations were found between pain knowledge and attitudes scores and cognitive (r = 0.156) and emotional empathy scores (r = 0.271), (P < .05). Negative correlations existed between age, work experience, and empathy scores (P < .001). Age and work experience had a negative correlations with empathy scores (P < .001). Empathy levels varied significantly by education, prior pain and empathy knowledge, surgery, and acute pain experience (P < .05). Regression analysis indicated that pain knowledge and attitude scores explained 56.8% of the variance in cognitive empathy and 59.5% in emotional empathy (P < .01).
Study results indicated that nurses' pain knowledge and attitudes were inadequate and that there was a positive relationship between pain knowledge and attitudes scores and empathy levels. In this context, in-service training programs should be revised to include pain management and empathy in detail. Effective multimodal education strategies like case studies and simulations are recommended to enhance knowledge and skills in pain management and empathy.
本研究旨在确定外科护士的共情能力与其疼痛知识及态度之间的关系。
采用定量、相关性研究设计，这是定量研究方法之一。
2024年3月至8月，在土耳其某省中心县的一家研究与实践医院及一家城市医院的外科科室（外科门诊、手术室和重症监护室）对242名护士进行了研究。使用护士信息表、疼痛知识与态度调查问卷以及基本共情量表收集数据。
疼痛知识与态度的平均得分为16.38±4.65（40.01%），认知共情得分为29.25±6.48，情感共情得分为32.66±5.78。疼痛知识与态度得分与认知共情（r = 0.156）和情感共情得分（r = 0.271）之间存在正相关（P < 0.05）。年龄、工作经验与共情得分之间存在负相关（P < 0.001）。年龄和工作经验与共情得分呈负相关（P < 0.）。共情水平因教育程度、先前的疼痛和共情知识、手术及急性疼痛经历而有显著差异（P < 0.05）。回归分析表明，疼痛知识与态度得分解释了认知共情中56.8%的变异和情感共情中59.5%的变异（P < 0.01）。
研究结果表明护士的疼痛知识和态度不足，且疼痛知识与态度得分和共情水平之间存在正相关。在此背景下，应修订在职培训计划，详细纳入疼痛管理和共情内容。建议采用案例研究和模拟等有效的多模式教育策略，以提高疼痛管理和共情方面的知识与技能。
