Effect of Nerve Physicians' Empathy Ability on Depressive Mood of Hospitalized Stroke Patients / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the effect of nerve physicians ' empathy on depressive mood of hospitalized stroke patients .Methods:Choosing hospitalized stroke patients in a hospital in Guangdong province from January 2017 to May 2017 ,we used the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale ( HADS) to measure their depressive mood;the Jefferson Scale of Empathy -Health Professionals ( JSE-HP) to measure their charge doctors ' empathy ability and analyzed the effect of doctors ' empathy on patients ' depressive mood .Results:The score of patients ' depres-sive mood was (7.48 ±4.75).Doctors' empathy ability and patients' family relationship were the influencing fac-tors of depressive mood of hospitalized stroke patients .After equilibrating other factors , when a one -point in-creased on the doctor ' s empathy score , the patient ' s depressive mood score decreased by 0 .135 points ( P <0 .001 ) .Conclusion:Hospitalized stroke patients managed by neurological physicians with high empathy ability are less likely to be depressive .Narrative medicine and empathy should be applied and deepened in the clinical prac -tice.