Empathy amongst dental students: An institutional cross-sectional survey in Poland and Croatia.
Ivana Brekalo PrsoKatarzyna Mocny-PachońskaAgata TrzcionkaSonja Pezelj-RibaricEma PaljevicMarta TanasiewiczRomana Persic BukmirPublished in: European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe (2020)
Croatian students scored higher on items associated with cognitive empathy, whilst Polish students displayed higher values in the aspect of emotional empathy. The present results demonstrated an increase in cognitive empathy level in Polish students, whilst in their Croatian colleagues, the level of cognitive empathy decreased with the progression of the academic programme.