Skip to main content

Table 1 Comparisons of first-year nursing students’ levels of cognitive empathy, affective empathy and total empathy before and after the clinical placement

From: First-year nursing students’ initial contact with the clinical learning environment: impacts on their empathy levels and perceptions of professional identity

Study variables

Before the clinical placement

(M ± SD)

After the clinical placement

(M ± SD)

t

P

Cognitive empathy

34.20 ± 5.55

36.97 ± 5.09

-7.84

 < 0.001

Affective empathy

32.20 ± 5.40

33.35 ± 5.84

-3.29

 < 0.01

Total empathy

66.39 ± 9.09

70.32 ± 8.93

-9.35

 < 0.001

  1. N = 220; M ± SD mean ± standard deviation
Back to article page

BMC Nursing

ISSN: 1472-6955

Contact us