Abstract

Dr. Priyanka A. Rao, Himani Sephia,

The present study aims to understand the level of Clinical Empathy and Dispositional empathy among doctors. Empathy becomes more important when talking in the health provider sector, because this is where it comes in action. Data was collected from 100 doctors from various specializations across different hospitals in Delhi. The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSE) , the HP version of this was used to assess the clinicians empathy as this focuses on empathy in clinical setting. And the International Reactivity Index (IRI) (Davis, 1980, 1983) was used for measuring dispositional empathy. The study explores correlation between empathy and dispositional empathy. As well as to compare the perceived empathy respective to their specialization was also measured through one way. To analyze the data Pearsons correlation and ANOVA was used. Results show that empathy and reactivity index was significantly related. And the groups based on specialization significantly differ in their experience of Empathy.