Jefferson Scale of Empathy.
JSE
- What it measures
- Empathy in patient-care/health-professional contexts - factors: Perspective Taking, Compassionate Care, Standing in the Patient's Shoes
- Length and format
- 20 items. 7-pt Likert (strongly disagree - strongly agree) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into 50+ languages and used in 80+ countries (one of the most internationally adopted empathy scales in health education)
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- copyrighted - author permission
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- Reference
- Hojat, M., et al. (2001). The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 61(2), 349-365. https://doi.org/10.1177/00131640121971158
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