Balint groups and narrative medicine compared to a control condition in promoting students’ empathy

BMC Medical Education

Table 2 General linear model predicting the change in JSPE-MS© score from baseline to one week after the last session

Term	β	95% confidence interval	SE	t	P
Constant	−5.142	−8.187, −2.097	1.548	3.321	0.001
Balint groups	2.673	0.258, 5.088	1.228	2.176	0.030
Narrative medicine	2.181	−0.280, 4.641	1.251	1.743	0.082
Female gender	1.455	−0.553, 3.463	1.021	1.425	0.155
Undergraduate parental education	1.672	−1.901, 5.246	1.817	0.920	0.358
Living alone	−0.191	−2.477, 2.095	1.162	0.165	0.869
Living neither alone nor with parents	2.098	−0.452, 4.649	1.297	1.618	0.107
Surgery choice	1.835	−1.897, 5.566	1.897	0.967	0.334
Other specialty choice	1.470	−1.125, 4.066	1.320	1.114	0.266

Reference categories for discrete variables were control group, male gender, graduate / postgraduate parental education, living with parents and medicine choice

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