Empatía en estudiantes y profesores de una escuela de odontología de República Dominicana

Introduction: The concept of empathy has been incorporated as one of the key elements for the achievement of the teaching-learning process goals in health science students. Objective: To estimate and compare the levels of empathy among dental students and professors in the undergraduate dental medic...

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Published in:Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2022, Vol.70 (2), p.66-75
Main Authors: Díaz Narváez, Víctor, Stocklin, Boni, Torres-Martínez, Pilar Alejandra, Silva Vetri, María Guadalupe, González-Díaz, Eugenia Smirna, Calzadilla Núñez, Aracelis, Reyes-Reyes, Alejandro
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Language:Spanish
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Dentistry
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Empathy (MeSH)
Empatía (DeCS)
Estudiantes
Faculty
Odontología
Students
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Summary:Introduction: The concept of empathy has been incorporated as one of the key elements for the achievement of the teaching-learning process goals in health science students. Objective: To estimate and compare the levels of empathy among dental students and professors in the undergraduate dental medicine program at the Universidad Central del Este (Dominican Republic). Materials and methods: Cross-sectional study. The study population (n=264) was divided into two groups: the first consisted of students in their first to fifth year of dental school (N=223; n=215), distributed in two areas (basic-preclinical and clinical courses), while the second group comprised professors working in both areas in the dental school of the university (N=53; n=49). The Jefferson Scale of Empathy (S-Version) was used. The descriptive analysis of the data included the estimation of means, standard deviations and percentages, and the reliability of the data was estimated using Cronbach's alpha. In addition, a two-way ANOVA was performed, calculating the effect size and the statistical power of the test; furthermore, when the Fisher’s exact test was significant for any factor, Tukey’s test was used to estimate differences between means. A significance level of α
ISSN:0120-0011
2357-3848