Are parental rearing patterns and learning burnout correlated with empathy amongst undergraduate nursing students?

Objective: Empathy can help establish harmonious nurse-patient relationships. We aimed to assess the status of empathy, and explore the relationship between learning burnout, parental rearing patterns and empathy amongst nursing students.

Method: A questionnaire survey that employed the Learning Burnout Scale, the Short-Form Egna Minnenav Barndoms Uppfostran (s-EMBU) and the Jefferson Scale of Empathy was conducted amongst 562 nursing students.