*Dept. of Physiotherapy, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore.
**Dept. of Physiotherapy, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore.
***Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore.
Communication is essential in almost all aspects of health care, from history taking to providing information to the patient. Communication skills have a significant impact on patient care and correlate with improved health outcomes and health care quality.
To assess the attitudes of undergraduate and post graduates physiotherapy students towards communication skill learning and to study the effect of an interactive lecture on communication skill on the attitude of undergraduate and postgraduate students towards learning communication skill s.
Study design: Randomized controlled trial
All Undergraduate, Interns, and Post graduate students of Physiotherapy requiring direct interaction with patients were included in this study.
The Communication Skills Attitude Scale (CSAS) was used to assess the attitudes towards communication skill learning.
The mean base line score of CSAS was calculated for the experimental & control group which was 86.38 and 87.5 respectively. Repeated measures ANOVA showed no statistically significant difference between the experimental & Control group.
Positive result was shown towards communication skill learning among the physiotherapy students. However, the attitude did not improve after a brief interactive lecture on communication skills.
