出版社:Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
摘要:This article aims to identify, along the literature, how empathy is influenced by several culturalfactors in the context of health professionals’ teaching-learning process .Performed as a scopingreview study, as proposed by the Joanna Briggs Institute, the search was performed in PubMed,LILACS, SCOPUS and Web of Science databases, between December 2017 and January 2018. It wasobserved, through the researches, that Western students have a higher level of empathy comparedto Eastern students, so there is also a difference in empathy between different ethinicity, race, sex andreligion. It’s evaluated through different instruments. So, among the factors that influence empathy,culture was identified as one of them. Further studies are needed to better understand the empathyamong the various health professions.