Exploring the delivery of empathic care in task-shared settings: A psychometric study in rural Pakistan.

ABSTRACT: Empathy plays a crucial role in psychosocial and psychological interventions, greatly impacting rapport building, patient adherence, and satisfaction with treatment. Empathetic interactions enhance patient's self-reflection and the delivery of more personalized therapeutic interventions tailored to the unique needs of each patient, thereby improving the overall quality of care. Despite empathy being central to psychosocial interventions, there are currently no valid and reliable patient-centered tools that assess the lay-therapist empathy that they show and/or exhibit toward their patients. In this study, the patient-rated Empathy Scale for Lay Therapists was developed to assess empathy in community health workers delivering psychosocial interventions. Psychometric validation was based on

SUBMITTER: Liaquat R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11867816 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature