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The Association Between Well-Being and Empathy in Medical Residents: A Cross-Sectional Survey. Journal of integrative and complementary medicine Swenson, T. L., Ehsanian, R., Tran, R. T., Petersen, T. R., Kennedy, D. J., Roche, M., Oppezzo, M., Noordsy, D. L., Fredericson, M. 2024

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the extent to which personal well-being may be associated with empathy, while controlling for potential confounders. Settings/Location: Residency programs throughout the United States. Subjects: A total of 407 medical residents from residencies including general medicine, surgery, specialized and diagnostic medicine participated in this study. Outcome Measures: Well-being was measured using the modified existential well-being subscale of the spiritual well-being scale. Empathy was measured using the Jefferson Scale of Empathy. Results: Well-being was found to be positively correlated with empathy when adjusted for possible confounders (p?

View details for DOI 10.1089/jicm.2023.0116

View details for PubMedID 38416862