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September 3, 2026African Journal of Reproductive HealthOpen Access

Ethics, empathy, and empowerment: the role of ideological and political education in preparing medical students for adolescent female reproductive health care

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SGShouwei GuoJYJuan Yan

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Cross-sectional study shows ideological education enhances preparedness for adolescent reproductive care in medical students, highlighting empathy and ethics as key mediators.

Key Points

  • To evaluate how ideological and political education influences medical students' ethical sensitivity and preparedness to deliver reproductive healthcare to adolescent females.
  • Conducted a quantitative cross-sectional survey among Chinese medical students using a structured questionnaire.
  • Evaluated exposure to ideological and political education alongside measures of ethical competence, empathy, empowerment orientation, and clinical preparedness.
  • Analyzed survey data using descriptive statistics, correlation assessments, regression analysis, and mediation modeling.
  • Ideological and political education was positively associated with enhanced student preparedness for adolescent reproductive healthcare.
  • Ethical competence, empathy, and empowerment orientation significantly mediated the relationship between education exposure and care preparedness.
  • Empathy demonstrated the largest mediating effect among all assessed psychological and ethical mediators.

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Guo et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9934cf636c6408cfa7c973https://doi.org/10.29063/ajrh2026/v30i16.8
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