Boosting Empathy and Compassion Through Mindfulness-Based and Socioemotional Dyadic Practice: Randomized Controlled Trial With App-Delivered Trainings.

J Med Internet Res · 2023 · PMC10413229 · PMID 37494106

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Compassion measured with the computer task did not change significantly but showed a trend toward increase only in socioemotional dyadic practice (β socioemotional =.08, P =.08; β waitlist socioemotional =.11, P =.06).

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Similarly, on the empathic concern subscale of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, a nonsignificant trend toward increase was found in the socioemotional intervention group (β socioemotional =.17; P =.08).

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Both low-dose trainings could boost behavioral empathy markers; however, the effects on behavioral and dispositional markers of compassion only trended after dyadic practice, yet these effects did not reach statistical significance.

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