The effect of an empathy role-play program for operating room nursing students.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of a role-playing training program for empathetic communication with patients on empathy scores of operating room nursing students.

Methods

This clinical trial was carried out on 77 operating room nursing students from the first to the fourth years studied in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in the academic year 2017-2018. The intervention administered on the experimental group included a 12-hour training program with the theme of expressing empathy to patients using a role-playing technique. The Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Health Profession Students' Version was completed before, immediately after, and one month after the intervention by the samples. Comparison ana

SUBMITTER: Larti N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6340813 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature