An assessment of empathy levels of dental students’ in Nepal: A cross-sectional comparative study
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An assessment of empathy levels of dental students’ in Nepal: A cross-sectional comparative study

Original Research Article
Published 2019-09-30
Siddharth Ghimire
Lecturer, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, Duwakot, Bhaktapur, Nepal
Punam Basnet Dixit
Associate Professor, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, Duwakot, Bhaktapur, Nepal
Deepak Kumar Roy
Lecturer, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, Duwakot, Bhaktapur, Nepal
Shweta Dhital
Lecturer, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, Duwakot, Bhaktapur, Nepal
Sirjana Dahal
Lecturer, Department of Community and Public Health Dentistry, Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, Duwakot, Bhaktapur, Nepal
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Keywords

Dental students; Dentist-patient relationship; Empathy

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Ghimire, S., Dixit, P. B., Roy, D. K., Dhital, S., & Dahal, S. (2019). An assessment of empathy levels of dental students’ in Nepal: A cross-sectional comparative study. Journal of Kathmandu Medical College, 8(3), 146–150. Retrieved from https://jkmc.com.np/ojs3/index.php/journal/article/view/20
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Abstract

Background: Empathy is a behavioural aspect of understanding and communicating with a desire to help. Empathy in medical personnel with patient is one of the basic ingredients of good physician/dentist –patient relationships.

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