Objective To synthesise qualitative studies reporting student, practitioner, or patient
experiences of empathy-training in healthcare. Methods We included qualitative studies …

Background Compassion and empathy are integral to safe and effective patient care.
However, to date, most studies have focused on exploring, defining, measuring and …

Objective: To verify the psychometric qualities and adequacy of the instruments available in
the literature from 2009 to 2019 to assess empathy in the general population. Methods: The …

Objective To estimate the effect of empathy interventions in health education and training
from randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Methods MEDLINE, PsycINFO, EMBASE, CINAHL …

Background Several studies suggest that medical student empathy declines throughout
medical school. However, no studies have synthesised the evidence regarding why …

Objectives Empathy in healthcare benefits patients and healthcare providers. However,
empathy decline is a recent trend within healthcare education. There is a paucity of literature …

Abstract Dialogue systems, from Virtual Personal Assistants such as Siri, Cortana, and Alexa
to state-of-the-art systems such as BlenderBot3 and ChatGPT, are already widely available …

Objective: Empathy is a foundational therapeutic skill and a key contributor to client
outcome, yet the best combination of instructional components for its training is unclear. We …

Background Empathy is a critical skill required by disability workers. Virtual reality may
increase access to staff training to foster empathy. Method A mixed methods feasibility study …

Evidence to date indicates that compassion and empathy are health-enhancing qualities.
Research points to interventions and practices involving compassion and empathy being …