Simulation to Enhance Empathy of Nursing Students Toward Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Study. Issue 6 (November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Patterson, Jodi; Duke, Gloria; Stocks, Eric; Hermanns, Melinda
• Is Part Of: Nurse educator. Volume 45:Issue 6(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-11
• Subjects: alcohol use disorder -- empathy -- nursing students -- simulation -- standardized patients; Nursing -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 610.73
• DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000000804
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0363-3624

Abstract

Abstract : Background: Empathy can be challenging when caring for individuals with alcohol use disorders (AUDs). Purpose: This study examined the effectiveness of simulation for enhancing the empathy of nursing students toward patients with AUD. Methods: A mixed-methods study used a pretest-posttest intervention measurement of empathy with the Comprehensive State Empathy Scale (CSES) and focus groups. Quantitative data were analyzed with t tests, whereas thematic analysis evaluated the qualitative data. Results: No significant differences were found between pre- and post-CSES scores. The subscales of empathic concern and shared affect were significant: empathic concern, t 55 = − 2.16, P = .04, and shared affect, t 55 = −2.16, P = .02. Empathic imagination reached significance for students with personal experience with someone with an AUD, t 54 = −2.39, P = .02. Conclusions: Additional research is warranted regarding the effect of simulation on empathic concern, shared affect, and empathic imagination toward individuals with AUD. Abstract : Supplemental digital content is available in the text.