Empathy among Medical Students: Is There a Relation with Quality of Life and Burnout?

Helena B M S Paro, Paulo S P Silveira, Bruno Perotta, Silmar Gannam, Sylvia C Enns, Renata R B Giaxa, Rosuita F Bonito, Mílton A Martins and Patricia Z Tempski

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 4, 1-10

Abstract: Background: We aimed to assess medical students' empathy and its associations with gender, stage of medical school, quality of life and burnout. Method: A cross-sectional, multi-centric (22 medical schools) study that employed online, validated, self-reported questionnaires on empathy (Interpersonal Reactivity Index), quality of life (The World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment) and burnout (the Maslach Burnout Inventory) in a random sample of medical students. Results: Out of a total of 1,650 randomly selected students, 1,350 (81.8%) completed all of the questionnaires. Female students exhibited higher dispositional empathic concern and experienced more personal distress than their male counterparts (p

Date: 2014
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