Purpose
The purpose of this study was to investigate empathy, awareness, and attitudes toward violence among elementary school students.
Methods
The participants were 195 fifth and sixth grade students in Y elementary school. The data collection period was from June 24 to July 4, 2019.
Results
Empathy scores significantly differed according to participants' gender and need for education on violence prevention. Attitudes towards violence (permissive and neglectful) significantly differed according to students' grade and need for education on violence prevention. Empathy was negatively correlated with permissive attitudes toward violence (r=-.26, p<.001) and neglectful attitudes toward violence (r=-.24, p=.001).
Conclusion
The results of this study are expected to be utilized as basic data for education on violence prevention through empathy.

Citations

• Development of a Violence Prevention Educational Program for Elementary School Children Using Empathy (VPEP-E)
  So Ra Kang, Shin-Jeong Kim, Jungmin Lee
  Child Health Nursing Research.2020; 26(4): 422.     CrossRef

Purpose
This study examined the mediating and moderating effects of multicultural efficacy in the relationship between cultural empathy and cultural competence in child care teachers.
Methods
A cross-sectional descriptive survey design was used. The participants were 277 child care teachers at private and public daycare centers in G and S districts of Seoul. The survey instruments included a cultural empathy questionnaire, a multicultural efficacy scale, and a cultural competence scale. Data were analyzed using the SPSS and AMOS programs. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, correlation, and mediating and moderating effect analyses were performed. Bootstrapping was implemented to verify the mediating effect of the model developed herein.
Results
Positive correlations among cultural empathy, multicultural efficacy, and cultural competence were noted. Multicultural efficacy showed a significant mediating effect on the relationships between cultural empathy and cultural competence. However, there was no moderating effect.
Conclusion
In order to enhance the cultural competence of child care teachers, it is necessary to develop a strategy that can promote their cultural empathy and multicultural efficacy. Furthermore, these results will ultimately enhance the role of child care teachers, thus contributing to the normal growth and development of multicultural children.

Purpose
This study examined the effects of an empathy ability improvement program on empathy ability and parenting efficacy among mothers of elementary school students.
Methods
This was a quasi-experimental study using a pre-test/post-test control group design. The experimental group (n=23) completed an empathy ability improvement program, while 22 mothers were assigned to the control group. Pre-test and post-test analyses were conducted using the empathy ability scale and parenting efficacy scale. The data were analyzed using the x² test and test independent t-test.
Results
The experimental group showed a statistically significant improvement in empathy ability (t=2.79, d=4.48, p=.008) and parenting efficacy (t=2.87, d=0.89, p=.006) in comparison to the control group.
Conclusion
The results of this study indicate that empathy education may be effective for improving empathy ability and parenting efficacy in mothers of school-age children.

Citations

• Effects of a Violence Prevention Education Program Using Empathy (VPEP-E) on Fifth-Grade Students in South Korea
  Kyung-Ah Kang, Shin-Jeong Kim, SoRa Kang, JungMin Lee
  The Journal of School Nursing.2024; 40(4): 361.     CrossRef

Purpose
Nurses experience burnout related to various factors. For this descriptive research job stress, compassion satisfaction, and compassion fatigue were examined as to their relationship to burnout in nurses from children’s hospital.
Methods
The participants were 305 nurses working in children’s hospital. Self-report questionnaires were used to measure job stress, compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue and burnout.
Results
Nurses in children’s hospital experienced a greater than moderate degree of job stress, compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue and burnout, whereas differences existed according to general characteristics. Job stress, compassion fatigue and burnout showed a significant positive correlation and results of compassion fatigue and burnout were similar. Also, job stress, compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue were associated with burnout in nurses working in children’s hospital.
Conclusion
Findings indicate that as longer work experience is accompanied by higher job stress and burnout, it is necessary to develop intervention programs to reduce burnout among career nurses exposed to greater job stress in children’s hospital.

Citations

• Factors affecting pediatric nurses’ development of partnerships with parents of hospitalized children: An evaluation based on the stress-coping adaptation model
  In Young Cho, So Hyoung Hong, Ji Yeong Yun
  Journal of Child Health Care.2025; 29(1): 53.     CrossRef
• The mediating role of psychological capital in the association between work engagement and occupational stress in pediatric nurses
  Kosar Abdeh Keykha, Mona Alinejad-Naeini, Hamid Peyrovi
  Scientific Reports.2025;[Epub]     CrossRef
• Changing Kindergarten Teachers’ Mindsets Toward Children to Overcome Compassion Fatigue
  Fangyan Chen, Yabo Ge, Wenjun Xu, Junshuai Yu, Yiwen Zhang, Xingjian Xu, Shuqiong Zhang
  Psychology Research and Behavior Management.2023; Volume 16: 521.     CrossRef
• Factors Associated with Job Stress among Hospital Nurses: A Meta-Correlation Analysis
  Ji-Young Lim, Geun-Myun Kim, Eun-Joo Kim
  International Journal of Environmental Research an.2022; 19(10): 5792.     CrossRef
• The development and evaluation of a pediatric nurse education program to improve nursing competency for newly graduated nurses in a children’s hospital
  Hae-kyung Shin, Hyo-yeong Kim, Hyun-Jung Kim, Min-kyung Kim, Hyun-joo Shin, Hoo-yun Lee, Jee-hee Han, Hye-jung Lee
  The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing .2022; 28(2): 179.     CrossRef
• A structural equation model of the relationship among occupational stress, coping styles, and mental health of pediatric nurses in China: a cross-sectional study
  Yating Zhou, Xiaoli Guo, Huaying Yin
  BMC Psychiatry.2022;[Epub]     CrossRef
• Mediating effect of sleep disturbance and rumination on work-related burnout of nurses treating patients with coronavirus disease
  Salman Zarei, Khadijeh Fooladvand
  BMC Psychology.2022;[Epub]     CrossRef
• Negative Emotions and Job Burnout in News Media Workers: A Moderated Mediation Model of Rumination and Empathy
  Mingxiao Liu, Ning Wang, Pengcheng Wang, Haomeng Wu, Xianger Ding, Fengqing Zhao
  Journal of Affective Disorders.2021; 279: 75.     CrossRef
• Posttraumatic growth and burnout in pediatric nurses: The mediating role of secondary traumatization and the moderating role of meaning in work
  Yaira Hamama‐Raz, Liat Hamama, Ruth Pat‐Horenczyk, Yaffa Naomi Stokar, Tal Zilberstein, Efrat Bron‐Harlev
  Stress and Health.2021; 37(3): 442.     CrossRef
• Mediating Effects of Anger Expression in the Relationship of Work Stress with Burnout among Hospital Nurses Depending on Career Experience
  Hye Yeong Lee, Mi Heui Jang, Yoo Mi Jeong, Sohyune R. Sok, Ae Sil Kim
  Journal of Nursing Scholarship.2021; 53(2): 227.     CrossRef
• A Survey of Nurses' Need for Care Robots in Children's Hospitals
  Meiling Jin, Jeongeun Kim
  CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing.2020; 38(7): 349.     CrossRef
• Burnout amongst Nurses in Cancer Wards: Impact of Nursing Professionalism, Perfectionism, and Resilience
  Eun Ko, Hye Young Kim, Gwang Sook Kim, Rang Soon Kim, Hyang Sook So
  Asian Oncology Nursing.2018; 18(4): 214.     CrossRef

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to investigate NICU nurses’ nursing interventions for pain and factors affecting nursing interventions for pain.
Methods
Participants were 120 NICU nurses from 5 university hospitals located in Daejeon Metropolitan City and Chungcheong Province. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA and Duncan test, Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression analysis with SPSS Windows 23.0 IBM program.
Results
The factors affecting nursing interventions for pain included knowledge about non-pharmacological nursing interventions for pain and self-efficacy about nursing interventions for pain. These variables explained 28.3% of nursing interventions for pain.
Conclusion
The results of this study suggest that it is necessary to develop education programs in which effective nursing interventions for neonatal pain are considered. The programs should be made available to NICU nurses.

Citations

• Effects of nurse’s knowledge and self-efficacy on nursing performance in pediatric intravenous fluid management in South Korea: a descriptive study
  Se-Won Kim, Mi-Young Choi
  Child Health Nursing Research.2024; 30(4): 288.     CrossRef
• Influence of Pain Management Knowledge, Pain Management Self-Efficacy, and Empathic Capacity on Pain Management Performance of Nurses in Orthopedic Units
  Ji-Eon Han, Jeonghyun Cho
  STRESS.2022; 30(2): 109.     CrossRef

Purpose
This study was conducted to identify knowledge about asthma, attitude to asthma, and empathy for children with asthma as held by university of education students, and to examine the relation between these variables and factors that influence them.
Methods
Participants were 347 third and fourth year students from a national university of education in G city. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficients, ANOVA and Tukey test with SPSS/WIN 18.0.
Results
The score for participants’ knowledge about asthma was 0.53 out of a possible 1, for empathy, 3.63 out of a possible 5, and for attitude towards asthma, 3.33 points of a possible 5. The attitude towards asthma showed significant differences according to year, satisfaction with major, and satisfaction with practice teaching. Knowledge about asthma and empathy showed a positive correlation with attitudes to children with asthma. Year and Knowledge about asthma, and empathy showed a significant influence on attitudes to children with asthma.
Conclusion
Results of this study indicate that development of appropriate knowledge and empathy in students in a university of education should lead to positive attitudes to children with asthma. This development could be enhanced with structured and on-going education about asthma.

Citations

• Framework and suggestions for kindergarten to third grade teachers in managing asthma and other related chronic illnesses
  Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett, Sofia Hirt, Yvette Q. Getch, Ethan J. Schilling
  Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education.2023; 44(4): 833.     CrossRef