Table 2.
High activelistening | Low active listening | ||||||
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Item | M | SD | M | SD | t | p | Cohen’s d |
Understands perspective | 4.76 | 1.85 | 3.51 | 1.96 | |||
Asks about daily life | 3.27 | 2.07 | 2.86 | 1.93 | |||
Exhibits concern | 4.29 | 1.88 | 3.31 | 1.93 | |||
Understands feelings | 4.24 | 1.73 | 3.10 | 1.98 | |||
Understanding healthcare provider | 4.16 | 1.80 | 3.31 | 1.96 | |||
Total score | 20.73 | 7.90 | 16.10 | 8.95 | 3.56 | 0.001 | 0.548 (medium) |
Note. JSPEO = Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy for Observers. Thomas Jefferson University, 2001. Permission to modify this scale for research was obtained from Thomas Jefferson University. All rights reserved. The wording presented above is paraphrased and is not the precise wording on the JSPEO. Effect size was interpreted according to Cohen’s d (Cohen, 1988).