Physicians' self-assessed empathy levels do not correlate with patients' assessments

PloS One
Monica Oliveira BernardoMarco Antonio Carvalho-Filho

Abstract

Empathy is a fundamental humanistic component of patient care which facilitates efficient and patient-centered clinical encounters. Despite being the principal recipient of physician empathy little work on how patients perceive/report receiving empathy from their physicians has been undertaken. In the context of doctor-patient interactions, knowledge about empathy has mostly originated from physicians' perspectives and has been developed from studies using self-assessment instruments. In general, self-assessment may not correlate well with the reality observed by others. To investigate: 1-the relationship between physicians' self-assessed empathy and patients' measures of physicians' empathy; 2 -Environmental factors that could influence patients' perceptions; and 3 -the correlation between two widely used psychometric scales to measure empathy from the perspective of patients. This is an observational study which enrolled 945 patients and 51 physicians from radiology, clinical, and surgical specialties. The physicians completed the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSE) and the International Reactivity Index (IRI), and patients completed the Consultation and Relational Empathy scale (CARE), and the Jefferson Scale of Patie...Continue Reading

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