Communicating with patients: an Operative Group in Rheumatology

Journal title PSICOLOGIA DELLA SALUTE
Author/s Massimo Mari, Luca Di Maio, Paola Gremigni, Marinella Sommaruga, Walter Grassi
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/1
Language Italian Pages 13 P. 135-147 File size 546 KB
DOI 10.3280/PDS2011-001010
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Effective communication is an important indicator of the quality of hospital services. This paper presents the results of an intervention-research on the communication skills of the members of a hospital team in rheumatology after a training course on communication. The experience involved 23 health professionals (78.3% female, mean aged 38.3± 9.7 years) of the Clinical Rheumatology at the Polytechnic University of Marche (52.2% nurses, 30.4% physicians, 13% OSS, and 4% organic) in a refresher course based on E. Pichon Rivière’s Operative Group technique. Healthcare professionals evaluated their communication skills before and after the course, with the Health Care Communication Questionnaire- Professionals (HCCQ-P). The HCCQ was also completed by 33 patients of the Clinic at the beginning of the course and by 34 at the end to report their experience of communication with these professionals. The results show a trend toward improvement in most HCCQ-P dimensions selfassessed by healthcare professionals and a significant improvement (p < 0.05) in the evaluation of patients with HCCQ. This result encourages the training of hospital teams in communication with the patient.

Keywords: Doctor-patient communication, healthcare professional training, operative group

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Massimo Mari, Luca Di Maio, Paola Gremigni, Marinella Sommaruga, Walter Grassi, Comunicare con i pazienti: un Gruppo Operativo in Reumatologia in "PSICOLOGIA DELLA SALUTE" 1/2011, pp 135-147, DOI: 10.3280/PDS2011-001010