this is a short commentary to the editorial issued by marianna fotaki, entitled: “why and how is compassion necessary to provide good quality healthcare.” it introduces the necessity of a more cognitive approach to explore further the determinants of behavior towards compassionate care. it raises questions about the importance of training towards a more patient-care and values driven healthcare...

Compassion is critical for societal wellbeing. Yet, it remains unclear how specific thoughts and feelings motivate compassionate behavior, and we lack a scientific understanding of how to effectively cultivate compassion. Here, we conducted 2 studies designed to a) develop a psychological model predicting compassionate behavior, and b) test this model as a mediator of a Compassion Meditation (C...

Investigational medicinal products are available to patients through two pathways. The first is by participating in a clinical trial, the second as part of a compassionate use program, which is the use of an investigational medicinal product outside a clinical trial in patients with serious or life-threatening diseases for which no other treatment is available or expected to be effective. Usual...

Abstract Self-compassion, a healthy way of relating to oneself, may promote psychological resilience during adolescence. How adolescents engage with self-compassion, and whether they have distinct self-compassionate or uncompassionate profiles, is unclear. This study investigated potential self-compassion profiles based on responses the Self-Compassion Scale–Short Form (SCS-SF) examined their r...

BACKGROUND The consistent delivery of compassionate health and social care to older people is a matter of global concern to the nursing profession and the public it serves. The development and evaluation of effective interventions to address this concern is of prime importance. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This paper draws on findings from previous research to propose the use of a novel implementation...

There is an emerging consensus that caring and compassion are under threat in the frenetic environment of modern healthcare. Enabling and sustaining compassionate care requires not only a focus on the needs of the patient, but also on those of the care giver. As such, threats and exhortations to health professionals are likely to have limited and perverse effects and it is to the organisational...

humor is the beautiful melody of art proceeding toward the cultural sublimation of a society. delving into its related components is among the great duties of the compassionate researchers of society, because using this unique art leads to deepening of understanding the subject in the addressee’s mind and on the other hand, it would state the society’s inefficiencies with a sarcastic and bitter...

Forest Bathing, where individuals use mindfulness to engage with nature, has been reported increase heart rate variability and benefit wellbeing. To date, most Bathing studies have conducted in Asia. Accordingly, this paper reports the first pragmatic controlled trial of United Kingdom, comparing a control comprising an established wellbeing intervention also known called Compassionate Mind Tra...

This comment on Professor Fotaki’s Editorial agrees with her arguments that training health professionals in more compassionate, caring and ethically sound care will have little value unless the system in which they work changes. It argues that for system change to occur, senior management, government members and civil servants themselves need training so that they learn to understand the effec...