Objectives: To reaffirm the underlying components of the JSE by using exploratory factor
analysis (EFA), and to confirm its latent variable structure by using confirmatory factor …

Abstract The Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE) is a broadly used instrument developed to
measure empathy in the context of health professions education and patient care. Evidence …

Backgroud To examine the psychometric properties of a Chinese translation of the Jefferson
Scale of Empathy (Student-version, JSE-S), and to study differences in empathy scores …

Objective: This study was designed to provide typical descriptive statistics, score
distributions and percentile ranks of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Medical Student version …

Medical educators agree that empathy is essential for physicians' professionalism and most
studies on the patient-physician relationship demonstrate that this attitude has a key role in …

Empathy is crucial for effective clinical care but appears to decline during undergraduate
medical training. Understanding the nature of this decline is necessary for addressing it. The …

Methods This is a cross-sectional, observational study conducted among medical students
of Ghulam Muhammad Mahar Medical College in August 2018. Two hundred and seven out …

Background Empathy is a key aspect of the physician-patient interactions. The Jefferson
Scale of Empathy (JSE) is one of the most used empathy measures of medical students. The …

Introduction: The suggestion that empathy “declines” or “erodes” as students progress
through medical school has largely rested on observations reported from Jefferson Medical …

Purpose Understanding medical student empathy is important to future patient care;
however, the definition and development of clinical empathy remain unclear. The authors …