• Dania Nimbe Lima-Sánchez, Xóchitl Duque-Alarcón, Fiacro Jiménez-Ponce, Rafael Salín-Pascual, Francisco Morales-Carmona, and Arturo Ongay Peréz.
• Departamento de Informática Biomédica, Departamento de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México.
• Gac Med Mex. 2019 Jan 1; 155 (Suppl 1): S45-S49.

IntroductionEmpathy is the ability of an individual to understand it from another cognitive and emotional point of view. Empathy is a complex that represents a retouch in its evaluation, so, it is necessary to have instruments validated in the Mexican population.ObjectiveValidation of the Comic Strip Test to evaluate empathy.MethodSampling for convenience, based on internal consistency, convergent validity with the Empathy coefficient, construct validity in the factorial analysis, and the ability to discriminate between subjects with lack of empathy (psychopathology) and the control subjects through a curve ROC.ResultsThe comic strips test was evaluated in 86 controls, 19 patients with schizophrenia (Cronbach's alpha = 0.894). The correlation with the empathy coefficient was 0.88, with sensitivity of 81.3% and specificity of 38%.ConclusionsThe Comic Strip Test was validated with parametric psychometric parameters.Copyright: © 2019 SecretarÍa de Salud.

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