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Validation of the Persian Version of Health Professionals Communication Skills Scale

BACKGROUND: The need for assessing health-care workers' communication skills is increasingly emphasized by researchers. Achieving such a goal requires the use of a reliable tool. The purpose of this study was to validate the Persian version of Health Professionals Communication Skills Scale (HP...

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Autores principales: Nia, Hamid Sharif, Salimi, Seyedeh-Sakineh, Charati, Fahimeh Ghasemi, Azimi-Lolaty, Hamideh, Shafipour, Vida
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8865241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35280185
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_205_19
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author Nia, Hamid Sharif
Salimi, Seyedeh-Sakineh
Charati, Fahimeh Ghasemi
Azimi-Lolaty, Hamideh
Shafipour, Vida
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Salimi, Seyedeh-Sakineh
Charati, Fahimeh Ghasemi
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description BACKGROUND: The need for assessing health-care workers' communication skills is increasingly emphasized by researchers. Achieving such a goal requires the use of a reliable tool. The purpose of this study was to validate the Persian version of Health Professionals Communication Skills Scale (HP-CSS). MATERIALS AND METHODS: For the present methodological study carried out from September 2016 to February 2017, 400 health workers were selected by convenience sampling from educational hospitals in Mazandaran province in Iran and they were asked to fill out the 18-item HP-CSS. All steps of the scale validity were performed. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used. The reliability of the tool was measured by internal consistency. RESULTS: Two factors of care and verbal clarity with patients and respect for patients' rights, extracted by exploratory factor analysis, explained 47.38% of the variance. Content Validity Index (CVI) and Content Validity Ratio (CVR) of all items were higher than 0.79 and 0.49, respectively. Reliability coefficients of factors were found to be more than 0.70. Model's fitness indicators confirmed the construct of HP-CSS. Both factors had a convergent and divergent validity. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that the Persian version of the communication skills scale has a two-dimensional construct and good psychometric properties; also, this scale was found to be useful for the purpose and context in which it will be used, that is, communication skills.
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spelling pubmed-88652412022-03-10 Validation of the Persian Version of Health Professionals Communication Skills Scale Nia, Hamid Sharif Salimi, Seyedeh-Sakineh Charati, Fahimeh Ghasemi Azimi-Lolaty, Hamideh Shafipour, Vida Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res Original Article BACKGROUND: The need for assessing health-care workers' communication skills is increasingly emphasized by researchers. Achieving such a goal requires the use of a reliable tool. The purpose of this study was to validate the Persian version of Health Professionals Communication Skills Scale (HP-CSS). MATERIALS AND METHODS: For the present methodological study carried out from September 2016 to February 2017, 400 health workers were selected by convenience sampling from educational hospitals in Mazandaran province in Iran and they were asked to fill out the 18-item HP-CSS. All steps of the scale validity were performed. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used. The reliability of the tool was measured by internal consistency. RESULTS: Two factors of care and verbal clarity with patients and respect for patients' rights, extracted by exploratory factor analysis, explained 47.38% of the variance. Content Validity Index (CVI) and Content Validity Ratio (CVR) of all items were higher than 0.79 and 0.49, respectively. Reliability coefficients of factors were found to be more than 0.70. Model's fitness indicators confirmed the construct of HP-CSS. Both factors had a convergent and divergent validity. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that the Persian version of the communication skills scale has a two-dimensional construct and good psychometric properties; also, this scale was found to be useful for the purpose and context in which it will be used, that is, communication skills. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8865241/ /pubmed/35280185 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_205_19 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Charati, Fahimeh Ghasemi
Azimi-Lolaty, Hamideh
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8865241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35280185
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_205_19
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