Trial reportPatient education and counseling2013
Long-term effect of communication training on the relationship between physicians' self-efficacy and performance.
Trial report in Patient education and counseling, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05842083 (On-site Supportive Communication Training in Doctor-patient Communication), which is not on this map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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On-site Supportive Communication Training in Doctor-patient Communication: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
Who cites it
27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Communication skills training for healthcare professionals working with people who have cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Effects of proof-of-concept training on reducing work stress and anxiety of junior medical staff: a randomized controlled trial proof-of-concept.Acta neurologica Belgica · 2024Trial
- Effects of a shared decision-making implementation programme on patient-centred communication in oncology-Secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Trial
- Effects of a support group leader education program jointly developed by health professionals and patients on peer leader self-efficacy among leaders of scleroderma support groups: a two-arm parallel partially nested randomised controlled trial.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2022Trial
- Promoting Chinese-speaking primary care physicians' communication with immigrant patients about colorectal cancer screening: a cluster randomized trial design.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2014Trial
- When Medicine Gets Irritating: Interactional and Structural Triggers of Uncertainty in Family Medicine Residency Training.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2026Article
- Towards patient-centered healthcare: a scoping review of soft skills training in medical schools.BMC medical education · 2026Article
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- Implementation of the four habits model in intermediate care services in Norway: a process evaluation.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Effects of on-site Supportive Communication Training (On-site SCT) on doctor-patient communication in oncology: Study protocol of a randomized, controlled mixed-methods trial.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Evaluation of a patient-centered communication skills training for nurses (KOMPAT): study protocol of a randomized controlled trial.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Impact of a training program on hospital pharmacists' patient-centered communication attitudes and behaviors.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2023Article
- Communication in home care-A feasibility study of an educational intervention in self-efficacy and job satisfaction.Nursing open · 2023Article
- Impact of physician-patient relationship training on medical students' interpersonal skills during simulated medical consultations: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2022Article
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- Evaluation of Physician Assistants' Self-Reported Attitudes and Behaviors After Completion of a Hospital-Wide Multidisciplinary Communication Skills Training Workshop.Journal of patient experience · 2022Article
- Teaching and assessing communication skills in the postgraduate medical setting: a systematic scoping review.BMC medical education · 2021Article
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- Patients' illness narratives-From being healthy to living with incurable cancer: Encounters with doctors through the disease trajectory.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine the long term impact of a communication skills intervention on physicians' communication self-efficacy and the relationship between reported self-efficacy and actual performance.
methods62 hospital physicians were exposed to a 20-h communication skills course according to the Four Habits patient-centered approach in a crossover randomized trial. Encounters with real patients before and after the intervention (mean 154 days) were videotaped, for evaluation of performance using the four habits coding scheme. Participants completed a questionnaire about communication skills self-efficacy before the course, immediately after the course, and at 3 years follow-up. Change in self-efficacy and the correlations between performance and self-efficacy at baseline and follow-up were assessed.
resultsCommunication skills self-efficacy was not correlated to performance at baseline (r=-0.16; p=0.22). The association changed significantly (p=0.01) and was positive at follow-up (r=0.336, p=0.042). The self-efficacy increased significantly (effect size d=0.27). High performance after the course and low self-efficacy before the course were associated with larger increase in communication skills self-efficacy.
conclusionA communication skills course led to improved communication skills self-efficacy more than 3 years later, and introduced a positive association between communication skills self-efficacy and performance not present at baseline. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Communication skills training enhances physicians' insight in own performance.
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