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[Validity and reliability of a tool for assessing clinical communication in consultations: the CICAA questionnaire]
R Ruiz-Moral1, L A Pérula de Torres
1Grupo Comunicación la Salud, Unidad Docente de Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina, Nodo COGRAMA (redIAPP), Córdoba, Spain. roger.ruz.sspa@juntadeandalucia.es
Objective:
To assess the validity and reliability of a tool for evaluating the clinical communication skills of health professionals.
Design:
Descriptive study of the validation of a tool.
Setting:
Primary and specialist care.
Participants:
Twenty communication experts, in 31 interviews with patients seen by real and standardised nurses, primary care, and specialist doctors, residents with acute and chronic patients.
Interventions:
The study looked at a 36-item, multidimensional evaluative scale on 3 levels, based on the CICAA theoretical model of an interview and examined: 1) its apparent validity, consensus, and content: the clinical communication experts made 2 assessments, a qualitative one and one to weigh the importance of the remaining items; 2) its internal consistency and intra-observer reliability. An expert evaluated 31 interviews, video-recorded on 2 occasions with a 1-to-2 month interval.
Results:
A 29-item scale was obtained. Cronbach's alpha was 0.957 (95% CI, 0.932-0.976). The overall Intra-class Correlation Coefficient was 0.967 (95% CI, 0.933-0.984). The Kappa values of the items were <0.4 in 3, 0.4-0.6 in 6, 0.6-0.8 in 14, and >0.8 in 4.
Conclusions:
The CICAA is a valid and reliable questionnaire for evaluating the clinical communication between various health professionals and patients.
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