Psychometric Analysis of the JSPE Nursing Student Version R: Comparison of Senior BSN Students and Medical Students Attitudes toward Empathy in Patient Care

Table 1

Descriptive summary of participants, comparison of sample group with national population.

	AACN	Sample
Gender
Female	90.3%	88%
Male	9.7%	12%
Ethnicity
African american	12.1%	9%
Asian	5.8%	3%
Caucasian	76.1%	83%
Hispanic	5.2%	2%
Native american	0.8%	0.7%
Other	—	1.7%

AACN demographic figures regarding gender (𝑛=161, 787 students) and ethnicity (𝑛=148, 944 students) enrolled Fall 2005 [43].