Physicians’ Self-Assessed Empathy and Patients’ Perceptions of Physicians’ Empathy: Validation of the Greek Jefferson Scale of Patient Perception of Physician Empathy

Table 3

Mean values and test-retest reliability using intraclass correlation coefficients.

Items	Test scores	Retest scores	ICC (95% CI)
	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)
JS1	5.13 (1.82)	5.83 (1.49)	0.923 (0.846–0.963)
JS2	4.71 (1.94)	5.30 (1.92)	0.949 (0.895–0.975)
JS3	4.81 (1.91)	5.23 (2.27)	0.863 (0.732–0.932)
JS4	5.92 (1.53)	6.17 (1.58)	0.900 (0.801–0.951)
JS5	6.12 (1.41)	6.67 (0.80)	0.848 (0.705–0.925)
Total	26.69 (7.74)	29.2 (7.03)	0.958 (0.914–0.980)

ICC = intraclass correlation coefficients; CI = confidence interval; SD = standard deviation. ICC values using a two-way mixed-effects model. .