Does watching a movie improve empathy? A cluster randomized controlled trial

Background: We studied if watching a movie about the patient physician encounter alone or in combination with a communication skills training workshop could improve empathy score of medical students. Methods: One hundred and thirty three medical students participated in one of the following four gr...

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Autores principales:	Azin Ahmadzadeh, Mehdi Nasr Esfahani, Masoud Ahmadzad-Asl, Mohammadreza Shalbafan, Seyed Vahid Shariat
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Publicado:	Canadian Medical Education Journal 2019
Materias:	Education (General) L7-991 Medicine (General) R5-920
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7da283daf772458987dfeed1bac15a372021-12-01T22:41:46ZDoes watching a movie improve empathy? A cluster randomized controlled trial10.36834/cmej.569791923-1202https://doaj.org/article/7da283daf772458987dfeed1bac15a372019-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cmej/article/view/56979https://doaj.org/toc/1923-1202 Background: We studied if watching a movie about the patient physician encounter alone or in combination with a communication skills training workshop could improve empathy score of medical students. Methods: One hundred and thirty three medical students participated in one of the following four groups of the study. Group A: a three hour workshop (42 students); group B: watching the movie “The Doctor” (23 students); group C: watching the movie “The Doctor”, then, participating in a three hour workshop the next day (22 students); group D: control group with no intervention (46 students). Participants completed Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE), Student Version to assess empathy score before and after the intervention, and one month later. A linear mixed effect model analyzed the effect of intervention across groups considering the effects of other significant variables. Results: All of the three interventions had an immediate improving effect on empathy scores compared to control group. However, the improvement effect remained significant only in groups A (p=.015) and C (p=.001) one month later. Conclusions: Watching selected movies has a significant but transient effect on empathy of students. Combining two methods of watching the movie and communication skills workshop, seems to add the beneficial effects. Azin AhmadzadehMehdi Nasr EsfahaniMasoud Ahmadzad-AslMohammadreza ShalbafanSeyed Vahid ShariatCanadian Medical Education JournalarticleEducation (General)L7-991Medicine (General)R5-920ENCanadian Medical Education Journal, Vol 10, Iss 4 (2019)
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spellingShingle	Education (General) L7-991 Medicine (General) R5-920 Azin Ahmadzadeh Mehdi Nasr Esfahani Masoud Ahmadzad-Asl Mohammadreza Shalbafan Seyed Vahid Shariat Does watching a movie improve empathy? A cluster randomized controlled trial
description	Background: We studied if watching a movie about the patient physician encounter alone or in combination with a communication skills training workshop could improve empathy score of medical students. Methods: One hundred and thirty three medical students participated in one of the following four groups of the study. Group A: a three hour workshop (42 students); group B: watching the movie “The Doctor” (23 students); group C: watching the movie “The Doctor”, then, participating in a three hour workshop the next day (22 students); group D: control group with no intervention (46 students). Participants completed Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE), Student Version to assess empathy score before and after the intervention, and one month later. A linear mixed effect model analyzed the effect of intervention across groups considering the effects of other significant variables. Results: All of the three interventions had an immediate improving effect on empathy scores compared to control group. However, the improvement effect remained significant only in groups A (p=.015) and C (p=.001) one month later. Conclusions: Watching selected movies has a significant but transient effect on empathy of students. Combining two methods of watching the movie and communication skills workshop, seems to add the beneficial effects.
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author	Azin Ahmadzadeh Mehdi Nasr Esfahani Masoud Ahmadzad-Asl Mohammadreza Shalbafan Seyed Vahid Shariat
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title	Does watching a movie improve empathy? A cluster randomized controlled trial
title_short	Does watching a movie improve empathy? A cluster randomized controlled trial
title_full	Does watching a movie improve empathy? A cluster randomized controlled trial
title_fullStr	Does watching a movie improve empathy? A cluster randomized controlled trial
title_full_unstemmed	Does watching a movie improve empathy? A cluster randomized controlled trial
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publisher	Canadian Medical Education Journal
publishDate	2019
url	https://doaj.org/article/7da283daf772458987dfeed1bac15a37
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Does watching a movie improve empathy? A cluster randomized controlled trial

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