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Abstract：
Objective: To evaluate the extent to which personal well-being may be associated with empathy, while controlling for potential confounders. Settings/Location: Residency programs throughout the United States. Subjects: A total of 407 medical residents from residencies including general medicine, surgery, specialized and diagnostic medicine participated in this study. Outcome Measures: Well-being was measured using the modified existential well-being subscale of the spiritual well-being scale. Empathy was measured using the Jefferson Scale of Empathy. Results: Well-being was found to be positively correlated with empathy when adjusted for possible confounders (p < 0.001). In addition to well-being, other factors noted to be statistically significant contributors to higher empathy scores while controlling for the others included age, gender, year in residency, specialty, and work-hours (p < 0.05 for each). After controlling for these factors, a resident\'s year in residency was not found to be a statistically significant contributor to empathy score. Conclusions: In this study, well-being was associated with empathy in medical and surgical residents. Empathy is a fundamental component of physician competency, and its development is an essential aspect of medical training. These findings suggest that efforts to increase well-being may promote empathy among medical residents.
摘要：
目的：评估个人幸福感可能与同理心相关的程度，同时控制潜在的混杂因素。设置/地点：美国各地的居住计划。受试者：共有407名住院医师，包括普通医学，手术,专业和诊断医学参与了这项研究。结果度量：幸福是使用精神幸福量表的修改后的存在幸福子量表来衡量的。移情是使用杰斐逊移情量表进行测量的。结果：当调整可能的混杂因素时，幸福感与同理心呈正相关（p<0.001）。除了幸福,其他因素被认为是统计学上显著的贡献较高的同理心分数，而控制其他因素包括年龄，性别,居住年，专业,和工作时间（每个p<0.05）。在控制了这些因素之后，未发现居民居住年对同理心评分有统计学意义.结论：在这项研究中，在内科和外科住院医师中，幸福感与同理心有关。移情是医师能力的基本组成部分，它的发展是医学培训的一个重要方面。这些发现表明，增加幸福感的努力可能会促进医疗居民的同理心。
