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...

Background and Objectives: Considering the importance of prayer and its effect on personal characteristics, the present study was conducted to investigate the relationship of attitude and practical commitment to prayer with interpersonal communication skills among students of Sanandaj universities, Iran. Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was carried out in 2019 in Sanandaj, located in...

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.