purpose: to investigate the factors affecting communicational skills of regimental commanders toward conscripts at an army introductory military training center in tehran. materials and methods: the participants were 82 regimental commanders of the regiments and battalions of an introductory military training center. a 21-item questionnaire was used to collect the required data. descriptive and...

introduction: evaluation of nurse-patient communication skills have been strongly emphasized in order to ensure the possibility of effective communication as well as assessment of the effect of communication skills training programs. reaching this goal requires the use of standard instruments which is based on the native culture of the target group. due to the absence of native instruments in t...

communication skills play a paramount role in clinical practice. in every clinical setting, medical doctors need to interview their patients efficiently and be persuasive toward their health issues. this study aimed at assessing the attitudes of medical students toward learning communication skills at hormozgan university of medical sciences in iran. in this cross-sectional study, the questionn...

OBJECTIVE Recent studies have recognised that the communication skills learned in the training environment are not always transferred back into the clinical setting. This paper reports a study which investigated the potential of clinical supervision in enhancing the transfer process. METHODS A randomised controlled trial was conducted involving 61 clinical nurse specialists. All attended a 3-...

background and purpose: communication skills play an important role in diagnosis, effective treatment, and patient satisfaction. we aimed to determine the attitudes of medical students towards learning communication skills in order to design related educational programs for them. methods: this was a cross-sectional study with a sample of 200 medical students of yazd that were selected using cla...

Infertility is a life crisis and the most important problem for infertile couples. The inability to bear children is a stressful situation. The most infertile couple experience emotional suffering from infertility. The relation of stress to infertility is long-standing and ambiguous. The reaction of infertile couple in the stressful situations is influenced by the coping strategies for infertil...

background: communication is the most important parts of the educational process, which aims to transfer or exchange of ideas.it would be provided appropriately if the academic members had the communication skills .considering the important role of academic members in educational process, in this study the knowledge, attitude and performance of isfahan health school academic members towards eff...

the existence of an organization depends on communications and this is an area that managers spend most of their time on. therefore, recognition of communication skills accompanied with its implementation is among the essential parameters of successful management in any organization. in this study we decided to determine the relationship between managers' communication skills and health of orga...

Review of "Effect of communication skills training program for oncologists based on patient preferences for communication when receiving bad news: A randomized controlled trial" by Fujimori et al. (2014), Journal of Clinical Oncology, 32, 2166-2172. For a further discussion of survey research, please see the related article by Julie Ponto starting on page 168.

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship betweenemotional intelligence and communication skills with burnout in iranianinternational table tennis coaches. the statistical sample included thosecoaches holding degrees in international table tennis coaching in iran(n=150). the data were collected using three questionnaires named sybryashrink emotional intelligence (1986), barton j...