Abstract

SALCEDO-RIOJA, Mercedes Rita  and  DIAZ-NARVAEZ, Víctor Patricio. Empathy in dental students of National University of San Marcos (Peru). Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2015, vol.31, n.3, pp.565-574. ISSN 0120-5552.  https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.31.3.6801.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the level of empathy of Dentistry students of the National University of San Marcos (UNMSM). Material and methods: The sample consisted of 200 students, 55 % of students enrolled in first through fifth year of dental school. It was applied the Spanish version of The Jefferson (JSPE) empathy scale for students (S version). Primary data were initially subjected to normality test of Shapiro-Wilk in the two studied factors Year and Gender, Levene's homoscedasticity test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) bivariate. Results: It was found in the ANOVA test Bifactorial no significant differences between them (p> 0.05) The result of empathic orientation of dental students of San Marcos show small absolute changes, but gender or level of study there were not significant different.

Keywords : empathy; dentistry; Jefferson Scale.

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