Associations between empathy and big five personality traits among Chinese undergraduate medical students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Empathy promotes positive physician-patient communication and is associated with improved patient satisfaction, treatment adherence and clinical outcomes. It has been suggested that personality traits should be taken into consideration in programs designed to enhance empathy in medical education due to the association found between personality and empathy among medical students. However, the associations between empathy and big five personality traits in medical education are still underrepresented in the existing literature and relevant studies have not been conducted among medical students in China, where tensions in the physician-patient relationship have been reported as outstanding problems in the context of China's current medical reform. Thus, the main objective o

SUBMITTER: Song Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5302826 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature