Empathy Training Program for Nursing Staff

NCT05581381 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 20210106R
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The research purpose is to investigate the effectiveness of empathy training program for nurses, as well as to investigate the effectiveness of learning satisfaction for nurses and the empathy training program learning subjective experience of nurses.The quantitative method is the experimental research method using randomization. The nurses receiving the intervention of empathy training program are in the experimental group, while those who do not receive it are in the control group.

Conditions

Empathy

Keywords

Nurses; Empathy Training Program; Effectiveness; Subjective Experience

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Empathy Construct Rating Scale

  A total of 56 questions . It has good reliability and validity (the internal consistency is 0.92, and the test reliability after two weeks is 0.95). The ECRS(Empathy Construct Rating Scale) includes four subscales of caring (38-item), empathy (9-item), professional relationship (5-item), and communication (4-item), which are scored on a Likert scale ranging from 1 (completely unsatisfactory) to 6 (full compliance), Higher scores indicate higher empathy

  Pre-test

• Empathy Construct Rating Scale

  A total of 56 questions . It has good reliability and validity (the internal consistency is 0.92, and the test reliability after two weeks is 0.95). The ECRS(Empathy Construct Rating Scale) includes four subscales of caring (38-item), empathy (9-item), professional relationship (5-item), and communication (4-item), which are scored on a Likert scale ranging from 1 (completely unsatisfactory) to 6 (full compliance), Higher scores indicate higher empathy

  Post-test at Week 8

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• descriptive phenomenological research method

  post-test at Week 8

Study Arms (2)

Interventional empathy training program

EXPERIMENTAL

Provide empathy training for the experimental group for a total of 8 weeks (1 time a week, 1 hour each time).In the 8th week, both the experimental group and the control group must fill in the ECRS Empathy Scale; the experimental group must fill in the Learning Satisfaction Scale

Behavioral: empathy training program

No intervention empathy training program

NO INTERVENTION

The control group did not offer empathy training.In the 8th week, both the experimental group and the control group must fill in the ECRS Empathy Scale.

Interventions

empathy training program BEHAVIORAL

Empathy training, a total of 8 weeks of training (1 time a week, 1 hour each time)

Interventional empathy training program

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 64 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• \. Nursing staff

You may not qualify if:

• Nursing staff on night shifts
• Nursing staff working in the hospice and psychiatric wards

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences: lead
• Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Xuan-Yi Huang

Taipei, Peitou, 11219, Taiwan

Location

Related Publications (5)

• Bry K, Bry M, Hentz E, Karlsson HL, Kyllonen H, Lundkvist M, Wigert H. Communication skills training enhances nurses' ability to respond with empathy to parents' emotions in a neonatal intensive care unit. Acta Paediatr. 2016 Apr;105(4):397-406. doi: 10.1111/apa.13295. Epub 2016 Jan 21.

  PMID: 26648201 BACKGROUND

• Cao X, Chen L. The impact of empathy on work engagement in hemodialysis nurses: The mediating role of resilience. Jpn J Nurs Sci. 2020 Jan;17(1):e12284. doi: 10.1111/jjns.12284. Epub 2019 Jul 29.

  PMID: 31359610 BACKGROUND

• Derksen F, Bensing J, Lagro-Janssen A. Effectiveness of empathy in general practice: a systematic review. Br J Gen Pract. 2013 Jan;63(606):e76-84. doi: 10.3399/bjgp13X660814.

  PMID: 23336477 BACKGROUND

• Fleming BD, Thomas SE, Burnham WS, Charles LT, Shaw D. Improving Ethnocultural Empathy in Healthcare Students through a Targeted Intervention. J Cult Divers. 2015 Summer;22(2):59-63.

  PMID: 26245011 BACKGROUND

• Kahriman I, Nural N, Arslan U, Topbas M, Can G, Kasim S. The Effect of Empathy Training on the Empathic Skills of Nurses. Iran Red Crescent Med J. 2016 Jun 5;18(6):e24847. doi: 10.5812/ircmj.24847. eCollection 2016 Jun.

  PMID: 27621922 BACKGROUND

Study Officials

• Xuan-Yi Huang, DNSc

  National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Model Details: The quantitative method is the experimental research method using randomization. The nurses receiving the intervention of empathy training program are in the experimental group, while those who do not receive it are in the control group. The effectiveness assessment will use the Empathy Construct Rating Scale (ECRS) and learning satisfaction scale, Empathy Construct Rating Scale (ECRS) required to be completed by both the experimental group and control group. ECRS perform the pre-test and post-test assessments. The pre-test perform before the implementation of empathy training program, and perform the post-test at week 8 the end of empathy training program.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 7, 2022
• First Posted: October 14, 2022
• Study Start: October 19, 2021
• Primary Completion: June 30, 2022
• Study Completion: June 30, 2022
• Last Updated: October 14, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TW (1)