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Table 1 Overview of subcategories and categories

From: “It is through body language and looks, but it is also a feeling” - a qualitative study on medical interns’ experience of empathy

Subcategories

Categories

Theme

Skill, personality trait, being empathetic, doing empathy, understanding, to feel with, automatic skill,

The quality of empathy

Empathy – a multifaceted and conflictual phenomenon

Time pressure, norms, values, communication, negative emotions, frustration, uncertainty, being powerless

Factors that affects empathy

Level of engagement, lack of time, emergency situations

Conflicts in empathy