(Butterfield 2013)

Title: Empathy and Health Care Quality

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Authors: Stacey Butterfield

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    • Empathy exercises

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heatlhcare

Definition: (How was empathy defined?)

Benefits: (Were any benefits of empathy mentioned?)

Criticisms (Were any criticisms, negative effects or risks of empathy mentioned?)

Methods: (What were the methods used to train empathy?)

    • take time to reflect on their practice

    • journaling

    • clinical narrative

    • discuss experiences

    • simulate experience "wear glasses covered in Vaseline"

    • Empathic role models

    • Method acting,

    • counting to 10

    • studying meditation or mindfulness.

Target Group: (Who participated in this study / training?)

    • physicians

Measurements: (About the assessment: How was the change in empathy measured before/after the intervention/method?)

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