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

Table 5

Health-related measures.

Group A
Scales	Mean score (SD)	Median score (IQR)
SAS	29.90 (6.07)	29 (6.5)
PHQ-9	4.37 (3.56)	4 (2)
EQ-5D index score	0.51 (0.35)	0.53 (0.53)
EQ-5D VAS “thermometer”	59.04 (28.49)	65 (50)
VAS pain scale	2.81 (2.92)	2 (6)
Group B
Scales/subscales	Mean score (SD)	Median score (IQR)
EQ-5D index score	0.51 (0.35)	0.53 (0.53)
EQ-5D VAS “thermometer”	59.04 (28.49)	65 (50)
TCES personal cognitive subscale	46.66 (7.35)	47 (7)
TCES personal emotional subscale	45.88 (7.52)	46 (13)
TCES professional cognitive subscale	47.93 (6.70)	48 (11)
TCES professional emotional subscale	43.55 (9.12)	42 (9.5)