Effects of Education and Clinical-Training on the Recognition of Communication Skills for Physical and Occupational Therapists

Hiroki Okuda

《International Journal of Modern Education Forum》 3卷3期 (2014/08) Pp. 98-101

https://doi.org/10.14355/ijmef.2014.0303.04

並列摘要

The purpose of this investigation is to examine the effects of university education and clinical-training experience on the recognition of communication skills for medical service workers (physical therapists, occupational therapists and nurses, etc.). The participants were 90 Japanese university students. 50 of them were freshmen and the remaining 40 were seniors majoring in physical therapy. They were asked to evaluate the necessity of 144 items of communication skills for medical service workers (necessity score) on a 7-point scale (1-7). They were also asked to evaluate the degree of adequateness and skillfulness of their performance of the skills (ability score) on a 7-point scale. The items were divided into 4 groups: the basic skill item group, the specific patient item group, the difficult situation item group and the general item group. The mean ability scores of all the 4 item groups in the senior group were significantly higher than those in the freshman group (p＜0.01). Various factors which influence the recognition of communication skills and the improvement of research methods were discussed.

並列關鍵字

Communication Skills ； Physical Therapy ； Self Evaluation