Communication skills tend to decline with time unless they are regularly recalled and practiced. However, most medical schools still deliver clinical communication training only during pre-clinical years although the clinical environment is considered to be ideal for acquiring and teaching clinical communication. The aim of this article is to review the barriers that prevent communication skill...

OBJECTIVE Health-care communication skills training may be particularly needed in the Arabian Gulf countries because of the variety of cultures within the physician and patient populations. This study describes the implementation and results of a communication skills training program for physicians in Qatar that assessed previous training, and effect of previous training on participants' course...

This article describes a study on the effects of a self-instruction training programme in communication skills for psychology students at the Open University of the Netherlands in comparison to a fully supervised training. We expected both training programmes to increase students’ knowledge and skills, as well as their self-efficacy and motivation concerning the use of skills. Furthermore we ex...

BACKGROUND There is evidence that marital problems can contribute to child behavior problems. In fact, the way that parents solve their conflicts, such as aggression, physical violence, and poor communication skills, can eventually culminate in aggression and emotional problems in children. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of conflict resolution training on children's behavioral p...

agricultural applied-scientific education that develops the practical skills of students to getter with theoretical education can development of job skills take steps with development of job skills in educational programs in reinforcing the specification, abilities and skills of students. the aim of the study was to investigate the rate of the business and the development of job skills of agric...

purpose: the main objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between information literacy skills and effectiveness of primary school teachers in sari city. methodology: due to the nature of the study, descriptive-correlational survey method has been used. for data collection two researcher-made questionnaires have been employed. the population of the study was all the primary sc...

conclusions the findings showed that personal, interpersonal, and functional skills can facilitate nurses’ career advancement. the effects of these skills on career advancement depend on a variety of conditions that require further studies. results the three themes extracted from the data included interpersonal capabilities, competency for career success, and personal capacities. the results sh...

the present study aims to describe the rate of premarital skills among daughters of martyrs and veterans in mazandaran province, as well as to identify the impact of parents’ marital skills on their girls’ skills. the universe of the study is all of single, older than 15 years old girls whose fathers were martyr or veteran. 366 young girls have been selected as a sample of the study via two-ste...