The 125-item Communication Self-assessment Scale Inventory for Deaf Adults evaluates difficult communication situations, their importance to the client, communication strategies, and attitudes toward hearing loss. Each scale contains subscales, and the scales may be used independently of each other. The original 115-item scale was revised to improve internal consistency of some of the subscales...

background and purpose: communication has become a core topic in nursing care and investigations on this topic could have a significant impact on increasing nursing quality services. the present study aims to evaluate the communication skills and nursing staff component focusing on emotional management, others' perception and self-expression. methods: this is a cross-sectional descriptive-...

Some internal medicine residency program directors have expressed concerns that their third-year residents may have been subjected to inappropriate communication during the 2016 fellowship recruitment season. The authors sought to study applicants' interpersonal communication experiences with fellowship programs. Many respondents indicated that they had been asked questions that would constitut...

INTRODUCTION There is little research identifying medical students' attitudes towards communication skills learning. This pilot study outlines the development of a new scale to measure attitudes towards communication skills learning. METHODS First- and second-year medical students (n = 490) completed the 26-item Communication Skills Attitude Scale (CSAS) and 39 students completed the CSAS on ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa laryngocele is an air-filled, abnormal dilation of the laryngeal saccule that extends upward within the false vocal fold, in communication with the laryngeal lumen. a case of 43-year-old male with bilateral internal laryngoceles, who has been treated as asthma for 4 years, is presented. the patient had dyspnea, cough, and excessive phlegm for a mont...

the process that forms during writing is under an important principle and according to abstract form of alphabet and their composition. this principle is called writing system. therefore, writing is accounted an artistic work. cognitive it is important in different dimension view, because of man abstract view point that has led emergence of communication system. this paper for cognitive analysi...

The Communication Self-Assessment Scale for Deaf Adults (CSDA) evaluates difficult communication situations, their importance to the respondent, communication strategies, and communication attitudes. Scale items use simple descriptive language in active declarative form. Each scale is comprised of three or more subscales. The subject responds using a three point semantic differential based on f...

Situational judgement tests (SJTs) present scenarios drawn from a work context and ask respondents to select the most appropriate response from among a range of options. They therefore attempt to assess aspects of social cognition that are not often measured in traditional selection batteries. The present study asked participants to complete a high-fidelity SJT constructed by staff at ETS to as...