Psychometric properties of the Attitudes towards Medical Communication Scale in nursing students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adequate communication skills in healthcare professionals are one of the key elements required for achieving high-quality healthcare. Thus, measurement instruments able to assess the dimensions related to these skills, including attitudes towards communication, are useful and convenient tools.

Objectives

To (a) cross-culturally adapt and validate a scale to measure attitudes towards communication in a sample of nursing students in the Spanish environment; (b) describe the perceived attitudes of nursing degree students towards communication.

Methods

We conducted an instrumental study. First, we adapted the scale by applying a standardised linguistic validation procedure. After that, we determined its structural equivalence and evaluated its psychometric prop

SUBMITTER: Escribano S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8162233 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature