Working nurses' empathy with patients in public hospitals.

Objective: to determine the levels of empathy in professional nurses of a high-complexity hospital, to relate age to empathy (and each one of its dimensions), and to establish if there are differences between these levels according to the type of working schedules.

Method: comparative, correlational and cross-sectional design. The sample used (n=271) constituted 40.

Psychometric properties of the Jefferson Empathy Scale in four nursing student faculties.

Objective: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Jefferson Medical Empathy Scale, Spanish version (JSE-S), its factorial structure, reliability, and the presence of invariance between genders in the behavior of empathy levels among Chilean nursing students.

Method: Instrumental research design. The JSE-S was applied to 1,320 nursing students.

Chilean Dentistry students, levels of empathy and empathic erosion: Necessary evaluation before a planned intervention: Levels of empathy, evaluation and intervention.

Objectives: To estimate the general empathy levels and the potential for empathic growth in Dentistry students and demonstrate that the empathic erosion model is not med.

Material And Methods: Exploratory and cross-sectional study. Population: First- to fifth-year Dentistry students at Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago Campus (Chile).

Reconsidering the 'Decline' of Dental Student Empathy within the Course in Latin America.

Introduction: The controversy over the presence of empathic decline within the course in students of medicine, dentistry and health sciences in general, has not fully been studied. This controversy could be partially solved if massive studies of empathy levels are made in similar cultural, social and economic contexts.

Material And Methods: Empathy levels within the course were studied in eighteen dental schools from six countries in Latin America (2013).

[COMPARISON OF PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN PRESCHOOL CHILEAN NORMAL WEIGHT VERSUS OVERWEIGHT/OBESITY].

Objective: to compare the DSM Nutritional distributed in three states: normal, overweight and obese.

Subjects And Methods: test DSM "TEPSI" 58 children (intentional sample) from a total of 150, 4 to 4.5 years, which were divided into 3 groups was applied: normal weight (n = 28); overweight (n = 18) and obese (n = 12).

Empathic orientation among medical students from three universities in Barranquilla, Colombia and one university in the Dominican Republic.

Objective: To compare empathic orientation among medical students from three schools of medicine in Colombia and one in the Dominican Republic.

Material And Methods: Empathic orientation of medical students was measured using the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE), Spanish version for students (the "S" version) validated in Mexico and Chile, and culturally adapted to Colombia and the Dominican Republic. Data were compared using a three-factor analysis of variance (model III) and a discriminant analysis.

[Do vitamins from foods fortified exceed the allowed limits? Study carried out in population young adolescent and young adult of the metropolitan region of Chile].

In order to analyze the usual consumption of vitamins in an adolescent population and young adult in the Metropolitan Region, were 213 food fortified with vitamins of the Chilean market. A survey of consumption and nutrient intake was calculated. The result added vitamins added to food.