“Incrementare l’empatia negli studenti delle professioni sanitarie:Strategie e Interventi”. Studio sperimentale controllato randomizzato

The study aims were to evaluate the effects of interventions for nursing students to improve interpersonal communication in consultations with patients, evaluate the impact of nursing education on self-reported emotional empathy among undergraduate students in a 3-year nursing course, compare empathy levels among Albanian Health Professional students, and explore any relationship among students’ characteristics and their empathy levels. To achieve these aims, a experimental study was conducted. Group comparisons of empathy scores were examined using t-test and ANOVA F-test. The study involved 235 first-year nursing students at the Faculty of Medical Technical Sciences in Elbasan. The students began participating in the study in October 2022 and were followed until October 2024, when the last questionnaire was administered. This study indicates that interventions, that combines theory and practice are a useful evidence-based educational intervention for improving the empathic ability and academic achievement of nursing students. As their seniority increases, new nursing students may experience burnout and their empathic ability may decline in the second year. In the end of interventions, in the third year of the study, the increase is statistically significant, meaning the intervention in experimental group had a meaningful positive impact on empathy, p-value:< 0.001. The findings underscore that the intervention not only improved empathy but also potentially prevented the natural decline observed in the control group. This demonstrates the intervention's value in fostering and maintaining empathy over time, especially in settings where empathy is critical, such as nursing or healthcare education.