Empathy in students of Kinesiology
Keywords:
EMPATHY, STUDENTS, EMOTIONS, GENDER IDENTITY, CHILE.Abstract
Introduction: empathy is an important concept in the interaction between the Kinesiologist and the patient.
Objective: to determine the levels of empathy in students of Kinesiology considering the variables course and gender from the School of Health Sciences, University of Atacama (Chile) in November 2018.
Methods: exploratory and cross-sectional study. A sample of 191 students was included in the study. The Jefferson's Empathy scale was used. The median, quartile 1 and 3, inter-quartile difference and confidence interval of the median were estimated. The possible differences regarding empathy were studied using nonparametric tests (Mood Median).
Results: there were differences in empathy in the course variable. Empathy was not different concerning gender variable.
Conclusions: levels of empathy, along with the levels of interest showed differences between courses and there are no differentiation concerning empathy between genders.
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