Publications by authors named "Ehsan Tavakolian"
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- Nurse empathy is crucial for enhancing health care quality and alleviating patients' physical and psychological symptoms, yet studies show a decrease in empathy among nurses over time.
- Researchers aimed to explore the relationship between reported empathy and Mu suppression (a brain response linked to empathy) in nurses with three years of experience.
- Results indicated no significant differences in Mu suppression or reported empathy scores between nurses with varying backgrounds, suggesting that three years of experience does not impact empathy levels significantly.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how mu suppression relates to self-reported empathy in nurses and its impact on patient satisfaction.
- Using a sample of 30 nurses and their patients, the researchers measured empathy with specific scales and analyzed brain activity via EEG to assess mu suppression.
- Results indicated no link between mu suppression and empathy or patient satisfaction, but a positive correlation between nurses' self-reported empathy and patient satisfaction was found, suggesting that empathy skills can be developed to improve patient experiences.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of obsessive beliefs, obsessive-compulsive disorder severity and metacognitive beliefs to the quality of life in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Sixty one adults with a principal diagnosis of OCD were recruited for the study. Participants were assessed by trained clinicians using an unstructured clinical interview, the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire, the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, the Metacognitive Beliefs Questionnaire and the WHO Quality of Life Questionnaire.
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