Empathy in Professor of a Educational Institution in Metropolitan Lima

Abstract

Introduction: Empathy is one of the qualities that health professionals must possess, which allows them to improve their relationship with the patient and in turn the care to be performed, so the objective of the study is to determine empathy in Professor of an Educational Institution in Metropolitan Lima, Methods: It is a quantitative, descriptive-cross-sectional study with a population of 102 Professor who developed a questionnaire of sociodemographic aspects and the Jefferson Medical Empathy Scale., Results: In their results, we observed that 26.5% (n=27) have a low level of empathy, 25.5% (n=26) moderate low level, 24.5% (n=25) moderate high level and 23.5% (n=24) high level of empathy., Conclusions: In conclusion, training in nurses should be improved, since it will allow quality and humanized care in the patient.