Measurement of empathy among health professionals during Syrian crisis using the Syrian empathy scale

BMC Medical Education

Table 4 The item-total correlations for each factor

Factor		Item4	item5	Item6	Item7	Item8	Item9	Item10
Care and Understanding	Pearson Correlation	.489^**	.675^**	.722^**	.755^**	.692^**	.583^**	.705^**
Care and Understanding	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
		item1	item2	item3
Feeling	Pearson Correlation	.864^**	.794^**	.853^**
Feeling	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.000	0.000	0.000
		item11	item14	item16	item19	item20
Health care	Pearson Correlation	.680^**	.700^**	.631^**	.704^**	.609^**
Health care	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
		item12	item13	item18
Negative Empathy Impact	Pearson Correlation	.704^**	.743^**	.730^**
Negative Empathy Impact	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.000	0.000	0.000
		item15	item17
Clinical Decision Making	Pearson Correlation	.810^**	.795^**
Clinical Decision Making	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.000	0.000

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