Empathy Levels Among Undergraduate Medical Students in Karachi, Pakistan - a Cross-sectional Study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT05736276

Enrollment

463

Registered

2023-02-21

Start date

2022-06-01

Completion date

2022-07-30

Last updated

2023-02-21

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Conditions

Empathy

Keywords

empathy, medical students, Pakistan, surveys and questionnaires, observational study

Brief summary

Empathy is a concept native to the field of medicine. However, over the course of medical school, empathy levels are expected to decline. The aim of this study was to assess the empathy levels amongst medical students in relation to their year of study and specialties of choice in the future. A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess empathy levels among students from medical colleges in Karachi, Pakistan, using an online survey. The total duration of the study was two months. The authors analyzed the data using SPSS version 20. A total of 463 undergraduate medical students participated in this survey.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

17 Years to 24 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* undergraduate medical students

Exclusion criteria

* all the remaining population

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Empathy score on the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE)	June 2022 - July 2022	The total score range of the JSE is 20-140. Each factor of the questionnaire attributes to both positive and negatively phrased questions with '1' signifying 'strongly disagree' and '7' signifying 'strongly agree'.

Countries

Pakistan

Outcome results