EMPATIA: A Guide for Communicating the Diagnosis of Neuromuscular Diseases.
Isabella Araujo Mota FernandesRenata Oliveira Almeida MenezesGuilhermina RêgoPublished in: International journal of environmental research and public health (2022)
The empathic transmission of the message and the prognosis must accommodate the feelings of the interlocutors with different information needs. In this way, communication planning optimizes the time and individualizes each context, respecting the autonomy of those involved. EMPATIA reflects the bioethical and interdisciplinary analysis of the literature and comes to fill the gap related to the communication of bad news in neuromuscular diseases.