Rapid Assessment of Therapeutic Empathy (RATE): Development of a universal single-item empathy scale and validation of the patient-reported version

• Amber Bennett-Weston ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: abw13@leicester.ac.uk

  Affiliation Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare, Leicester Medical School, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5981-9393

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• John Maltby,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Healthcare, University of Leicester, George Davies Centre, Leicester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0621-9359

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• Kamlesh Khunti,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

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• Char Leung,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medical Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

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• Daya Narwal,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare, Leicester Medical School, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8868-7357

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• Patience Otoo,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare, Leicester Medical School, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1596-867X

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• Benita Iyadi-Wilson,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare, Leicester Medical School, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

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• Jeremy Howick

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare, Leicester Medical School, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

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