RT Journal Article
T1 Empathy among health science undergraduates toward the diagnosis of chronic pain: An experimental study.
A1 López-Martínez, Alicia Eva
A1 Serrano-Ibáñez, Elena Rocío
A1 Solís-Serrano, Laura
A1 Ramírez-Maestre, María del Carmen
A1 Esteve-Zarazaga, Rosa
K1 Dolor
K1 Estudiantes universitarios
AB Objectives: To analyse the empathetic response of future health professionals toward people diagnosed with chronic pain differentiated by the degree of visibility and credibility of symptoms. Methods: A total of 203 undergraduates performed an experimental task using vignettes depicting different diagnoses of chronic pain and completed questionnaires measuring dispositional and situational empathy. A MANCOVA analysis was conducted. Results: The main effects of chronic pain diagnoses did not significantly affect situational empathy (p = .587, η2 = 0.007, d = 0.229). The dispositional empathy variables perspective-taking and personal distress affected the situational empathy scores (p = .002, η2 = 0.072, d = 0.906, and p = .043, η2 = 0.032, d = 0.547, respectively). Conclusions: It would seem appropriate to foster intra-individual empathy factors among health science undergraduates such that they can more readily understand the process of individual adaptation to chronic pain and thus manage it more effectively. Practice implications: It would be useful for dispositional empathy to form part of the transversal competences of the training programmes of future health professionals from the beginning of their studies.
YR 2023
FD 2023-08-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28191
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28191
LA eng
NO López-Martínez, A.E., Serrano-Ibáñez, E.R., Solís-Serrano, L., Ramírez-Maestre, C., & Esteve, R. (2023). Empathy among health science undergraduates toward the diagnosis of chronic pain: An experimental study. Nurse Education Today, 130, 105922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2023.105922
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026