@article{Srivastava_Tiwari_Vyas_Semwal_Kandpal_2017, title={Teaching clinical empathy to undergraduate medical students of Dehradun: A quasi-experimental study}, volume={29}, url={https://www.iapsmupuk.org/journal/index.php/IJCH/article/view/757}, DOI={10.47203/IJCH.2017.v29i03.008}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Background:</strong>Empathy, the aptitude to resonate with others’ emotions,influences favourable doctor-patient relationship and treatment outcome. The clinical empathy comes a cropper for medical students as they stride towards the completion of medical course. Empathy is a docile characteristic; hence the lamentable dwindling of clinical empathy is amenable to prevention by specially designed targeted interventions.</p> <p><strong>Objectives:</strong>To evaluate any change in empathy level of undergraduate medical students after an interactive audio-visual teaching session on clinical empathy</p> <p><strong>Methodology:</strong>It was a pre-post quasi experimental study done on 328 undergraduate medical (MBBS) students of Dehradun by using Jefferson Scale of Empathy- Medical Student Version (JSPE-S) with pre-test and post-test separated by an interval of one month after an interactive audio-visual teaching session on clinical empathy.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong>There was statistically significant improvement in overall mean empathy scores from 99.01(±12.9) to 109.33(±12.8) with a large effect size (Cohen’s d = 1.1). Statistically significant improvement in empathy level was seen irrespective of gender, age, MBBS year and area of interest for future speciality with large effect sizes of >0.8.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong>Clinical empathy can be improved during the years of medical education by specifically designed interventions.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Indian Journal of Community Health}, author={Srivastava, Ashok K and Tiwari, Kritika and Vyas, Shaili and Semwal, Jayanti and Kandpal, Sunil Dutt}, year={2017}, month={Sep.}, pages={258–263} }