Avaliação de um programa de desenvolvimento da empatia para graduandos de enfermagem

• Autor(a) principal: Kestenberg, Celia Caldeira Fonseca
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15069
• topic: Empathy; Personal development; Nursing care; Empatia; Desenvolvimento interpessoal; Cuidado de enfermagem; Enfermagem; Relações humanas; Interação social; Treinamento de sensibilidade; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

Empathy is a socially learned ability and is fundamental for interpersonal relations of helping, specially for professions as nursing, which object is human caring in all its different dimensions. Thus, it is substantial to think in technologies that make possible the potencialization of this ability in nurse professional formation. The present study approaches on the efficacy evaluation of a Empathy Development Program (EDP) for nursing undergraduate students. Experimental method was used and 17 students participated in 16 three-hour training sessions while 16 students composed control group. The procedures used included: relaxation, dialog exposition on empathy, experience, role playing with videofeedback and natural environment application of learned abilities. The participants of both groups were evaluated before intervention, immediately after and in follow-up of 30-40 days. Cognitive and affective components of empathy were assessed by Empathy Inventory. For the assessment of verbal empathic behavior, the participants verbalizations in role playing interaction situations were recorded in audio. These verbalizations were assessed by three previously trained judges that were blind to group division. The EDP was evaluated by the participants through their spontaneous verbalizations during the training and through a questionnaire, answered at the end of the program. Statistical analyses showed that EDP was effective in improving significantly the empathic comprehension and verbalization of experimental group compared to control group. The evaluation inside experimental group also reveals significant changes in verbal empathic performance of participants over the three evaluation moments. Qualitative analysis of participants reports showed some benefits of the program, such as the reduction of personal anguish face to patients suffering and the generalization of learned abilities over other relational contexts, what favored improvement in relationship quality in different social spheres.