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Abstract
Empathy is an important issue, and critical concept to nursing. Empathy is considered as an essential aspect, and crucial component of all forms of helping relationships. Confusion exists as to the nature of empathy and whether it is innate or learned, a personality dimension, and whether it is amenable to change through experience and training. One of the major advances in nursing’s understanding of the concept came with the identification that empathy exists in two forms, basic and trained. Basic empathy, a universal human capacity, is seen as genotypic existing as trait or contagion form and is a natural or raw type reflecting social acuity and sensitivity. In contrast, the trained form of empathy ”which is a role-taking form” is taught or learned in relation to professional practice. The latter has been a part of the nurse’s life and can be logically and intentionally directed through the nursing education and practice which influence the nurse’s ability to become a more sensitive human being, and form a deeper, more meaningful knowledge of the patient’s experience.
The main purpose of the present study is to determine whether a training program can enhance the empathic skills of nurses working in El Maamoura hospital for psychiatric medicine.
This study was conducted at El-Maamoura Hospital for Psychiatric Medicine in Alexandria. The subjects of this study were composed of 80 nurses who constitute all nurses working in a sampled 8 wards using a stratified randomization technique to represent free, private, males, and females wards. They were latter divided into 2 groups: study and control (40 each.)