The review included three RCTs, with a total of 347 healthcare professionals. All studies needed to assess the professionals before and after communication skills training, measuring changes in behavior and skills using objective and validated scales. The RCTs included administration of communication skills training where the control group received usual or alternative training to the intervent...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Communication with patients is a core clinical skill in medicine that can be acquired through communication skills training. Meanwhile, the importance of transfer of communication skills to the workplace has not been sufficiently studied. This study aims to assess the efficacy of a 40-hour training program designed to improve patients' satisfaction and residents' communic...

Entrepreneurship education has two effects: it improves students’ entrepreneurial skills and provides impetus to those suited to entrepreneurship while discouraging others. While entrepreneurship education helps students to make a vocational decision its effects may conflict for those unsuited to entrepreneurship. We show that vocational and skill formation effects of entrepreneurship education...

BACKGROUND General practitioners (GPs) are responsible for managing the majority of mental health problems. There is evidence that the recognition and management of mental disorders could be improved. Vocational training schemes including a placement in psychiatry should be a prime opportunity to develop the requisite skills. AIM To determine whether GP trainees thought that a six-month psych...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness competency-based training in improving skills and human resources West Sulawesi Province. This uses qualitative research methods, data used are primary obtained from interviews with UPTD employees Province instructors, assessors/competence test examiners through professional certification institutions/LSP Makassar participants vocatio...

BACKGROUND Addiction as a biopsychosocial problem has been dramatically increased in our country. Adverse consequences of the addiction in women have been shown to be more than men, which in turn can affect family members' health and wellbeing. The current study examined the efficacy of stress coping skills training in addicted women referring to an outpatient centre of addiction prevention loc...

The paper finds out poor engagement in business English training program prevents adult learners at College of Continuing Education of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies from improving their communication skills. PBL (Project –Based Learning) is proposed to motivate adult learners to get involved with learning a lot. Based on the perspective of psychology, learners’ needs may produce motiv...

The provision of an appropriate supply of occupational expertise is clearly of overwhelming importance in the contemporary labour market. Without it, how would the infrastructure that supports modern life be built, how would the sick and vulnerable be properly cared for; how would machinery and equipment be effectively maintained and repaired, and so on. All these activities are made possible b...

Improving nursing communication skills and HCAHPS scores.

Questions related to job skills and the teaching situations that best promote skill development are investigated by specialists in various fields, notably among them, ergonomists. This paper presents the findings of an ergonomic intervention study whose aim was to develop a meat-deboning training program by taking into account both the training content to be constructed and the working conditio...