Longitudinal Study of Empathy Levels in Physiotherapy Students

Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

Status: Completed

Conditions: Longitudinal Study of Empathy Levels in Physiotherapy Students

Treatments: Behavioral: survey

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05016115

71306642/050-01-04/257

Details and patient eligibility

About

'Empathy' is a core term of occupations related to health sciences like physiotherapy. In physiotherapy education programs, empathy is necessary to have a successful cooperation with the clients. This study was planned to follow the changes of empathy levels in physiotherapy students of a four-year bachelor program and therefore enhance the curriculum related to the results. To the best of our knowledge, this research is the first longitudinal study about empathy levels of students in Turkey. Hypotheses: Empathy levels of the students increase year by year (1). Female students are more empathetic than male ones (2).

Full description

Totally 120 physiotherapy students at a non-governmental university in Istanbul participated in this study. The Turkish reworded student version of the Jefferson scale of physician empathy was used. Empathy scores were compared related to study years and gender. Empathy scores relevant to gender were compared using Mann-Whitney U test. The Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance was used for differences among the four study years.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• attending the first through fourth year of physiotherapy department
• being willing to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

do not continue in physiotherapy department

Trial design

120 participants in 1 patient group

physiotherapy students

Description:

Totally 120 physiotherapy students at a non-governmental university in Istanbul participated in this study.

Treatment:

Behavioral: survey