The development of a scale to measure medical students' attitudes towards communication skills learning: The Communication Skills Attitude Scale (CSAS)

Medical Education

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 141-147

  Rees, Charlotte ^a   Sheard, Charlotte ^a   Davies, Susie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitude, attitude of health personnel; Communication skills, interpersonal communication; Education, medical, undergraduate; Students, medical

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMMUNICATION SKILLS ATTITUDE SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SKILL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0036173510     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2002.01072.x     Document Type: Article

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