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What do we know about written assessment of health professionals’ communication skills? A scoping review
- Source :
- PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2021.
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVE: The aim of this scoping review was to investigate the published literature on written assessment of communication skills in health professionals' education. METHODS: Pubmed, Embase, Cinahl and Psychnfo were screened for the period 1/1995-7/2020. Selection was conducted by four pairs of reviewers. Four reviewers extracted and analyzed the data regarding study, instrument, item, and psychometric characteristics. RESULTS: From 20,456 assessed abstracts, 74 articles were included which described 70 different instruments. Two thirds of the studies used written assessment to measure training effects, the others focused on the development/validation of the instrument. Instruments were usually developed by the authors, often with little mention of the test development criteria. The type of knowledge assessed was rarely specified. Most instruments included clinical vignettes. Instrument properties and psychometric characteristics were seldom reported. CONCLUSION: There are a number of written assessments available in the literature. However, the reporting of the development and psychometric properties of these instruments is often incomplete. Practice implications written assessment of communication skills is widely used in health professions education. Improvement in the reporting of instrument development, items and psychometrics may help communication skills teachers better identify when, how and for whom written assessment of communication should be used. ispartof: PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING vol:105 issue:5 pages:1188-1200 ispartof: location:Ireland status: published
- Subjects :
- Communication skills
Medical education
Psychometrics
Health professionals
Communication
Health Personnel
VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Basale medisinske, odontologiske og veterinærmedisinske fag: 710
General Medicine
CINAHL
Health professions
VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Basic medical, dental and veterinary science disciplines: 710
Test (assessment)
Knowledge
Medicine and Health Sciences
Written assessment
Humans
Psychology
Delivery of Health Care
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07383991 and 18735134
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ad5a490eb37d4ad368a1c392feeb9943