Reconsidering the ‘Decline’ of dental student empathy within the course in Latin America
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2017Autor
Díaz Narváez, Víctor Patricio
Erazo Coronado, Ana María
Bilbao, Jorge Luis
González, Farith
Padilla, Mariela
Calzadilla Núñez, Aracelis
Silva Vetri, María Guadalupe
Arboleda, Joel
Bullen, Mirian
Utsman, Robert
Fajardo, Elizabeth
Alonso, Luz Marina
Cervantes, Marcos
Varela, Teresa
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The controversy over the presence of empathic decline within the course in students of medicine, dentistry and
health sciences in general, has not fully been studied. This controversy could be partially solved if massive studies of empathy
levels are made in similar cultural, social and economic contexts. Material and Methods: Empathy levels within the course were
studied in eighteen dental schools from six countries in Latin America (2013). The mean of the empathy levels were used to
study the behavior between first and fifth academic years. The values of empathy levels within the course were observed by
applying the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy, the Spanish version. All these studies were cross-sectional. The value of
means observed, were subjected to regression studies and further adjustment curves were obtained and the coefficient of
determination were calculated. Results: Six different models of behavior were observed, which found that five of them suffer
empathic decline within the course, but with different final results: in some the decline persists until the fifth academic year and
in others, this decline ‘recovers’ persistently until the fifth academic year. The sixth model is characterized by a constant and
persistent increase of levels of empathy within the course until the last academic year. Discussion: There are six different
models for the behavior of means of levels of empathy within the course evaluated by a common methodology in eighteen
dental schools from six countries of Latin America. These findings support the existence of variability of empathic response and
a comprehensive approach is needed to find the causes that give rise to this variability. Conclusion: In dental students of Latin
America, there is variability in the behavior of the distribution in means between the academic years of the dentistry schools
examined in this study.
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