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标题：Empathy Gender in Dental Students in Latin America: An Exploratory and Cross-Sectional Study
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作者：Víctor Patricio Díaz-Narváez ; Ana María Erazo Coronado ; Jorge Luis Bilbao 等
期刊名称：Health
印刷版ISSN：1949-4998
电子版ISSN：1949-5005
出版年度：1527
卷号：07
期号：11
页码：1527-1535
DOI：10.4236/health.2015.711166
语种：English
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：Background: It is well-founded that empathy is an attribute that increases the likelihood of good communication between health professionals and patients, and it is usual that there is the conviction that empathy levels are higher in women than in men. Aims: A study comparing levels of empathy gender of students in 18 schools of dentistry from six Latin American countries was conducted. Method: An exploratory cross-sectional study of which empathy levels were measured by the Jefferson Scale of Empathy for dental students (S version) and these levels were compared between genders by t-student test, after verification of normal distribution and homoscedasticity. Results: Variability was found in the results of the comparisons. In some cases, empathy levels were higher in women, others in men and in most of them there were no differences between genders. Conclusions: The observed results do not support the belief that women are more empathetic than men. However, more studies must be performed in more powers and countries to verify that the results described constitute a scientific fact and not just a feature of dental students specifically in the countries studied.
关键词：Empathy;Gender;Dental Students