Physiotherapist Communication Skills Questionnaire (Polish Version): A New Scale for Assessing the Communication Skills of Physiotherapists and Physiotherapy Students
Objective: Optimal healthcare delivery relies on strong communication skills, which ideally are introduced in physiotherapy programs and honed with continuing vocational education. Existing general social skills tests do not have robust enough communication components to assess the communication ski...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2025-03-01
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| Series: | Physical Culture and Sport: Studies and Research |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/pcssr-2025-0007 |
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| Summary: | Objective: Optimal healthcare delivery relies on strong communication skills, which ideally are introduced in physiotherapy programs and honed with continuing vocational education. Existing general social skills tests do not have robust enough communication components to assess the communication skills of health professionals in clinical settings. The aim of the present study is to validate a newly created communicative skills questionnaire tailored to physiotherapists and physiotherapy students. Methods: In the first stage, 188 students aged 17–30 years (M=19.95; SD=1.510), including 80 males from the first (n=110) and second (n=78) years of undergraduate physiotherapy studies at Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw (AWF), were included in the study to test reliability and determine the factor structure of the Physiotherapist Communication Skills Questionnaire being created (PCS-Q -17). In the second stage of the research, 109 physiotherapy students, including 47 males and 62 females aged 18–24 years (M=20.68; SD=1.471), were surveyed to determine test validity by establishing relationships with the results of questionnaires examining general social skills (the Social Competence Questionnaire, SCQ) and emotional intelligence (the Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire INTE). |
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| ISSN: | 1899-4849 |