%0 Journal Article
%T Investigating the Effectiveness of Communication Skills Training on Nurses' Self-Efficacy and Quality of Care
%A Maiken Wolderslund
%A Poul-Erik Kofoed
%A Jette Ammentorp
%J Journal of Integrative Nursing and Palliative Care
%@ 3006-5550
%D 2024
%V 5
%N 1
%R 10.51847/55M0sHLo3Z
%P 14-20
%X Not having adequate communication skills can impact the self-efficacy beliefs of nurses and harm the patient care quality. Thus, the current study was done to study the impact of communication skills training on the self-efficacy and care quality of nurses. This semi-experimental research was done on 42 nurses. Communication skills were taught to the test group during 4 2-hour sessions. The group of controls did not receive any training. The tools of data collection included a self-efficacy questionnaire (GSE-17), a demographic questionnaire, and a nursing care quality questionnaire (QUALPAC). SPSS version 23 software and inferential and descriptive statistics were utilized for data analysis. The findings of the current study revealed that there was a remarkable difference between the score of the psychosocial dimension, the communication dimension, and the physical dimension of the care quality in the test group after and before the intervention (P0.001). There was a remarkable difference between the total quality of care score in the group of tests after and before the intervention (P0.001). There was a remarkable difference between the self-efficacy total score in the test group, after and before the intervention (P
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