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Empathy among health science undergraduates toward the diagnosis of chronic pain: An experimental study. López-Martínez, Alicia Eva Serrano-Ibáñez, Elena Rocío Solís-Serrano, Laura Ramírez-Maestre, María del Carmen Esteve-Zarazaga, Rosa Dolor Estudiantes universitarios Chronic pain 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. 2023-12-01T09:54:42Z 2023-12-01T09:54:42Z 2023 2023-08-03 journal article AM 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 https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28191 10.1016/j.nedt.2023.105922 eng open access application/pdf