Table 3 Overarching categories and themes derived from study data
From: Compassion training in healthcare: what are patients’ perspectives on training healthcare providers?
1) Compassion aptitude: Intrapersonal factors impacting learners at baseline • The innate factor: A baseline for compassion • Vocational motivators and life experience: Inhibitors and facilitators of compassion • Embedded Resources: Eliciting and enhancing health care providers’ capacity for compassion 2) Cultivating compassion: Recommended essential skills for developing compassionate care providers • Building a relationship • Understanding the patient as a human being: Seeing the person behind the disease • Emotional resonance: Developing a human connection 3) Training methods • Person-centered communication skills • Reflective practice • Compassionate role modeling |