Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
E-Journal of Dokuz Eylul University Nursing Faculty, cilt.14, sa.4, ss.370-378, 2021 (Scopus)
Background: Nurses' empathic tendencies influence their perceptions of individualized care. Objective: The study aims to determine the relationship between nursing students empathic tendencies and individualized care perceptions. Methods: This study employed a descriptive and correlational design the sample of the study consisted of 227 students enrolled in the nursing department of a state university in the fall semester of the 2020-2021 academic year. Data were collected with the Introductory Specifications Form, Empathic Tendencies Scale, Individualized Care Scale‐A‐Nurse Version. For the analysis, descriptive statistics, Student's t test, One-way analysis of variance Tukey and Pearson’s correlation were used. Results: It was determined that the students' total mean score on the Empathic Tendency Scale was 68.14 ± 8.52, and the average total score of the Individualized Care Scale-Nurse was 4.13 ± 0.56. Individualized Care Scale-Nurse subscale means were determined to be decision-making control (4.18 ± 0.63), clinical status (4.17 ± 0.59) and personal life status (3.98 ± 0.71), respectively. A weak positive correlation was found between the Empathic Tendency Scale and the Individualized Care Scale-Nurse (r =.396, p =.001). When the relationship between the Empathic Tendency Scale and the Individualized Care Scale-Nurse sub-dimensions was examined, there was a moderate positive (r =.413, p =.001), personal life situation sub-dimension (r =.283, p =.001) A weak positive correlation was found between the decision sub-dimension (r =.329, p =.001). Conlusion: In the study, empathic tendencies of nursing students are at medium level; good individualized care perceptions; It was determined that as the empathic tendencies of students increased, their individualized care perceptions increased.