Compassion competence
Compassion is recognised as a professional obligation and a patient's right (Baguley et al., 2020). On the one hand, providing compassion-based care has demonstrated benefits in patients such as: increased satisfaction with healthcare, reduced anxiety, increased pain tolerance, improved stress response (Baguley et al., 2020; Sinclair et al., 2020; Sinclair, Kondejewski, et al., 2021; Smith et al., 2017), decreased symptoms and improved quality of life (Sinclair et al., 2021). On the other hand, ...
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