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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2016.17.5.86

Factors influencing empathy for the elderly in nursing students  

Yang, Hyun Joo (Department of Nursing, Changshin University)
Kim, Hyun Jung (Department of Nursing, Kyungnam College of Information & Technology)
Byun, Eun Kyung (Department of Nursing, Kyungnam College of Information & Technology)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.17, no.5, 2016 , pp. 86-94 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing empathy with the elderly in student nurses and to provide the basic data on nursing education to improve empathy. Data were collected from 277 student nurses in B and C cities and analyzed by the t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression using SPSS WIN 20.0. The degree of empathy with the elderly in the student nurses was $214.66{\pm}22.72$. There were positive correlations between empathy and attitude of the elderly (r=.224, p<.001) and between empathy and facilitative communication (r=.346, p<.001), and these factors explained 15.4% of the empathy with the elderly. These results indicated that it is necessary to develop a nursing education program and curriculum for increasing empathy in student nurses.
Keywords
Attitude; Elderly; Empathy; Facilitative Communication;
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