Open AccessEmpathy among dental students: A systematic review of literature
Author(s) -
Ridhi Narang,
Litik Mittal,
Sonali Saha,
Vikram Pal Aggarwal,
Poonam Gardner-Sood,
Shyam Mehra
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of the indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry/journal of indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3905
pISSN - 0970-4388
DOI - 10.4103/jisppd.jisppd_72_19
Subject(s) - empathy , psycinfo , psychology , medline , systematic review , clinical psychology , dentistry , medicine , psychiatry , political science , law
Empathy is just as relevant within dentistry, although research is limited in this field and very less is available in the current literature. The demonstration of empathy by dentists has been correlated with decreased dental fear. The authors systematically reviewed the literature to investigate empathy levels among dental students.