Empathy in patient care with an Islamic religious approach

Abstract

BACKGROUND: A person is called empathetic because he is able to feel what others are feeling. Islam teaches us that fellow Muslims are brothers and sisters and as in one body, if one part of the body hurts, the other members of the body feel pain. This article describes in detail the empathy of patient care in an Islamic perspective.

AIM: Describe empathy and the benefits of empathy in patient care based on Islamic religion.

METYHODS:

Systematic literature review, following database: Google search, NCBI, researchgate, PubMed, between 2010- 2022. Qualitative assessment was applied using Giacomini and Cook's criteria.

RESULTS: A rigorous systematic review process resulted in empathy in the care of patients with religious Islam being strongly supported both in the Quran and Hadith and also in conventional research results found as many as 34 articles, related to empathy in healing, facilitating patient care, facilitating communication, providing satisfaction, facilitating action, facilitating cooperation, providing warmth and increasing affection.

CONCLUSIONS:

Empathy in the care of Islamic religious patients existed 1500 years ago with the view that "Islam teaches us that fellow Muslims are brothers and are like one body and may not interfere with non-Muslims. The results of the benefits are also in accordance with the research of experts, namely useful in healing, facilitating patient care, facilitating communication, providing satisfaction, facilitating action, facilitating cooperation, providing warmth and increasing affection.