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Background <p>Teachers are considered potential empathetic mentors who can serve as positive role models in the development of empathy skills among students in health sciences disciplines, positively influencing their relationships with healthy or ill individuals. Objective: To estimate and classify the levels of empathy among health sciences professors in Latin America and compare their distribution by gender. Methods: This was a descriptive- analytical cross-sectional study design, involving 1,128 health sciences professors from six Latin American countries. The Jefferson Scale of Empathy – Health Professions version (JSE-HP) was administered. Descriptive statistics were applied, along with confirmatory factor analysis (using the WLSMV estimator) and analysis of variance by gender. Empathy levels were calculated based on established cut-off points.</p> Results <p>More that half of the professors showed empathy levels in the medium to very low range. Measurement invariance by gender was supported. Statistically significant but small differences were observed, with women scoring slightly higher in Perspective Taking dimension and overall empathy.</p> Conclusion <p>Health sciences faculty in Latin America showed predominantly moderate empathy levels with small gender differences. These findings emphasize the need to strengthen empathy support in academic settings.</p>

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Empathy levels among health sciences professors in Latin America: distribution, classification and gender differences

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    2025年12月10日

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  • Víctor P. Díaz-Narváez,
  • José Gamarra-Moncayo,
  • Rubén Eduardo Vázquez-García,
  • Jaime Hernández de León,
  • Luz Marina Alonso Palacio,
  • Margarett Cuello-Pérez,
  • Natalia Fortich-Mesa,
  • Luis Montero Saldaña,
  • Laura Sánchez Jiménez,
  • Nuvia Estrada-Méndez,
  • Carolina More Toro,
  • Irma Andrade Valles,
  • Yolima Pertuz Meza,
  • Jorge Bilbao Ramírez,
  • María G. Silva-Vetri,
  • Eugenia González-Díaz,
  • Adán Alexis Acosta Martínez,
  • Lesbia Tirado Amador,
  • Sendy Meléndez Chávez,
  • Juan David Salcedos Salgado,
  • María Alicia Agudelo Giraldo,
  • Adalberto Llinas Delgado,
  • Jesús Alonso Cabrera,
  • Sara Huerta-González

摘要

Background

Teachers are considered potential empathetic mentors who can serve as positive role models in the development of empathy skills among students in health sciences disciplines, positively influencing their relationships with healthy or ill individuals. Objective: To estimate and classify the levels of empathy among health sciences professors in Latin America and compare their distribution by gender. Methods: This was a descriptive- analytical cross-sectional study design, involving 1,128 health sciences professors from six Latin American countries. The Jefferson Scale of Empathy – Health Professions version (JSE-HP) was administered. Descriptive statistics were applied, along with confirmatory factor analysis (using the WLSMV estimator) and analysis of variance by gender. Empathy levels were calculated based on established cut-off points.

Results

More that half of the professors showed empathy levels in the medium to very low range. Measurement invariance by gender was supported. Statistically significant but small differences were observed, with women scoring slightly higher in Perspective Taking dimension and overall empathy.

Conclusion

Health sciences faculty in Latin America showed predominantly moderate empathy levels with small gender differences. These findings emphasize the need to strengthen empathy support in academic settings.