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: Received: 19 September 2024 / Approved: 20 September 2024 / Online: 20 September 2024 (12:50:32 CEST)
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Hernández-Xumet, J.-E.; García-Hernández, A.-M.; Fernández-González, J.-P.; Marrero-González, C.-M. Vocation of Human Care and Soft Skills in Nursing and Physiotherapy Students. A Cross-Sectional Study. Preprints2024, 2024091607. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1607.v1
Hernández-Xumet, J.-E.; García-Hernández, A.-M.; Fernández-González, J.-P.; Marrero-González, C.-M. Vocation of Human Care and Soft Skills in Nursing and Physiotherapy Students. A Cross-Sectional Study. Preprints 2024, 2024091607. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1607.v1
Hernández-Xumet, J.-E.; García-Hernández, A.-M.; Fernández-González, J.-P.; Marrero-González, C.-M. Vocation of Human Care and Soft Skills in Nursing and Physiotherapy Students. A Cross-Sectional Study. Preprints2024, 2024091607. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1607.v1
APA Style
Hernández-Xumet, J. E., García-Hernández, A. M., Fernández-González, J. P., & Marrero-González, C. M. (2024). Vocation of Human Care and Soft Skills in Nursing and Physiotherapy Students. A Cross-Sectional Study. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1607.v1
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Hernández-Xumet, J., Jerónimo-Pedro Fernández-González and Cristo-Manuel Marrero-González. 2024 "Vocation of Human Care and Soft Skills in Nursing and Physiotherapy Students. A Cross-Sectional Study" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1607.v1
Abstract
Background: Empathy and assertiveness are two essential soft skills for health professionals such as nurses or physiotherapists. Both professions are characterised by their contribution to preserving and improving health and human care, and for their vocation of service. One of the achievements of the training is the voluntary, conscious, and individually inspired career choice; Objetives: This study aimed to evaluate the empathy, assertiveness, and care vocational levels among undergraduate students enrolled in the Nursing and Physiotherapy Degree programmes and to investigate the relationship between these soft skills and the care vocation; Methods: A cross-sectional study of nursing and physiotherapy students was conducted in the 2022/2023 academic year. The Interpersonal Reactivity Index scales for empathy, the Rathus test for assertiveness, and the “Vocation of Service for Human Care” questionnaire were used as study tools. Finally, 226 students participated in the study; Results: The empathy, assertiveness and vocation of service for human care of the students was found to be acceptable. Significant differences were also observed according to the gender variable or career in the students, with female students presenting better results in empathy subscales or vocation (p < 0.05). Students who are working or have clinical experience in other professions score lower on the empathy personal distress subscale (p < 0.05); Conclusions: Both nursing and physiotherapy students demonstrate satisfactory levels of empathy, assertiveness and vocation for human care. However, gender and previous work experience do notably influence these scores. It would be beneficial to conduct long-term studies with educational interventions to train and develop empathy, assertiveness and vocation for human care.
Keywords
students; nursing; Physical Therapy; empathy; assertiveness; vocation for care
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public Health and Health Services
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