Importance Of Communication Skills Research Articles

Tinjauan Al-Quran dan Hadist Tentang Manajemen Layanan dan Prinsipnya: Studi Literatur

This article presents an analysis of the relationship between service management in the context of Islamic education with principles taken from verses of the Qur'an and hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Service management is seen as a key element in the management of Islamic educational institutions to provide the best experience to learners, educators, and other related parties. The type of research used is a literature study. The source of research data comes from various relevant literature including the Quran and hadith, books, and scientific articles. Data analysis techniques are carried out qualitatively consisting of data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. The results of data analysis show that service management in the context of Islamic education management is an approach used to manage services or facilities related to the implementation of Islamic education. Key principles such as honesty, fairness, responsibility, and empathy, found in Islamic sources, are analyzed in the context of their application in educational management. In addition, the importance of communication skills, leadership, as well as planning, implementing, and evaluating educational programs that are in line with Islamic teachings are also clarified. Taking these principles into account, managers of educational institutions can ensure the overall and sustainable achievement of Islamic educational goals, as well as make a meaningful contribution in the formation of character and morality of learners in accordance with Islamic values

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in medical education: DEI at the bedside

BackgroundThe ability to recognize and address bias is an important communication skill not typically addressed during training. We describe the design of an educational curriculum that aims to identify and change behavior related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). “DEI at the Bedside” uses the existing infrastructure of bedside teaching and provides a tool to normalize DEI discussions and develop skills to address bias during a neurology inpatient rotation. MethodsAs part of traditional clinical rounds, team members on an inpatient service shared experiences with DEI topics, including bias. The team developed potential responses should they encounter a similar situation in the future. We report the results of our needs assessment and curriculum development to evaluate the feasibility of incorporating a DEI educational curriculum in the neurology inpatient setting. ResultsForty-two DEI experiences were recorded. Medical students were the most frequent discussants (44%). Direction of bias occurred between healthcare team members (33%), against patients (31%), and patients against healthcare team members (28%). Experiences ranged from microaggressions to explicit comments of racism, sexism, and homophobia. ConclusionsBased on needs assessment data, we developed a DEI educational curriculum for the inpatient neurology setting aimed to improve knowledge and skills related to DEI topics as well as to normalize conversation of DEI in the clinical setting. Additional study will demonstrate whether this initiative translates into measurable and sustained improvement in knowledge of how bias and disparity show up in the clinical setting and behavioral intent to discuss and address them.

Analysis of the Subtitle Translation of The Shawshank Redemption from the Perspective of the Skopos Theory

Translation is an important communication skill between different languages. In modern society, audiovisualproducts are distributed to worldwide areas as a popular means of mass media. As the globalization of economy and culture is advancing in the new century, audiovisual subtitle translation plays an increasingly important part. Good subtitles can enhance the audience’s experience of appreciating foreign films and make cultural communication more effective. This thesis conducts a brief survey on the strategies for film subtitle translation using the case study of the famous film The Shawshank Redemption. In this paper, based on Skopos theory, the author made a comprehensive analysis of subtitling activities and pointed out that subtitling, as a specialized area of translation, is not only guided by translation studies but also under the constraints of film properties. The Skopos theory of film subtitle translation is to provide, within the constraints of time and space, a well-translated subtitle that can contribute to a good understanding of what is happening on the screen. In short, the end justifies the means. Therefore, during the process of subtitle translation, the subtitler should take all the factors into consideration to identify the translation purpose, and then adopt corresponding translationstrategies. From this perspective, the author takes the Skopos theory as instruction and applies the reduction and addition method to analyze the film subtitle translation. In the age of globalization, foreign films are increasingly entering people’s lives. Watching foreign films is a popular and effective way to understand foreign cultures. However, in China, subtitle translation has not attracted as much academic attention as it deserves and few theories could be appropriately applied to subtitle translation. Therefore, the author hopes that subtitle translation could be paid more attention in terms of crosscultural communication.

Teaching breaking bad news in a gyneco-oncological setting: a feasibility study implementing the SPIKES framework for undergraduate medical students

BackgroundIt is a crucial task for physicians to deliver life threatening information to patients (breaking bad news; BBN). Many aspects influence these conversations on both sides, patients, and doctors. BBN affects the patient-physician relationship, patients’ outcome, and physicians’ health. Many physicians are still untrained for this multi-facetted task and feel unprepared and overburdened when facing situations of BBN. Therefore, any faculties should aim to integrate communication skills into their medical curricula as early as possible. The SPIKES protocol is an effective framework to deliver BBN. Aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and obstacles of a BBN seminar and its acceptance and learning curve among undergraduate medical students.Methods158 2nd year undergraduate medical students attended a compulsory BBN seminar. The task was to deliver a cancer diagnosis to the patient within a patient - physician role-play in a gyneco-oncological setting before and after a presentation of the SPIKES protocol by the lecturer. The students evaluated important communication skills during these role-plays respectively. Self-assessment questionnaires were obtained at the beginning and end of the seminar.ResultsMost students indicated that their confidence in BBN improved after the seminar (p < 0.001). They like the topic BBN to be part of lectures (76%) and electives (90%). Communication skills improved. Lecturer and seminar were positively evaluated (4.57/5).ConclusionThe seminar significantly increased confidence and self-awareness in delivering life-threatening news to patients among undergraduate medical students. Important learning aspects of BBN and communication skills could be delivered successfully to the participants within a short time at low costs. The integration of communication skills should be implemented longitudinally into medical curricula starting before clinical education to increase the awareness of the importance of communication skills, to decrease anxiety, stress, and workload for future doctors and– most importantly– to the benefit of our patients.

Investigating the Utilization of TikTok Application to Improve Nursing Students’ English Speaking Skills

In this era of the 5.0 industrial revolution, the importance of communication skills in English is becoming more pronounced, including in the field of nursing. Speaking is one of the four core skills for effective communication in the English language. The purpose of this paper is to describe nursing students’ experiences of using TikTok Application, a short-video sharing platform, as an alternative tool to help them practicing their speaking skills. The subjects of this study were 31 second-semester students of Nursing Study Program at a private University in Tangerang. The method used in this research was quasi-experimental approach with one group pretest-posttest design. The findings revealed that using the TikTok application can help students to improve their speaking skills significantly. In addition, they also gave positive responses toward using TikTok in learning English language as it could make them more relaxed and enjoyed while practicing their speaking skills.

Infants who develop autism show smaller inventories of deictic and symbolic gestures at 12 months of age.

Gestures are an important social communication skill that infants and toddlers use to convey their thoughts, ideas, and intentions. Research suggests that early gesture use has important downstream impacts on developmental processes, such as language learning. However, autistic children are more likely to have challenges in their gestural development. The current study expands upon previous literature on the differences in gesture use between young autistic and non-autistic toddlers by collecting data using a parent-report questionnaire called the MCDI-Words and Gestures at three time points, 12, 18, and 24 months of age. Results (N = 467) showed that high-likelihood infants who later met diagnostic criteria for ASD (n = 73 HL-ASD) have attenuated gesture growth from 12 to 24 months for both deictic gestures and symbolic gestures when compared to high-likelihood infants who later did not meet criteria for ASD (n = 249 HL-Neg) and low-likelihood infants who did not meet criteria for ASD (n = 145 LL-Neg). Other social communicative skills, like play behaviors and imitation, were also found to be impacted in young autistic children when compared to their non-autistic peers. Understanding early differences in social communication growth before a formal autism diagnosis can provide important insights for early intervention.

Visual Intelligence Education as a Tool for Enhancing Medical Students' Self-Perception of Communication Skills.

Visual arts-based exposure and training are effective tools to enhance medical education. The visual arts can increase emotional intelligence and critical thinking skills. This study, conducted at Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSoM) and the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, was designed to measure the effect of a visual arts elective course on medical students' self-perception of their communication skills. This 6-week course involved lessons at the NGA and GUSoM for16 second-year medical students. The intervention students were age and gender-matched to14 second-year medical student control participants who took different elective courses. Prior to and following the intervention, the participants completed the Communication Skills Attitude Scale (CSAS). Statistical analysis was performed with either the 2-sided t-test or 2-sided Wilcoxon rank-sum test. There were no statistically significant differences in the presurvey scores between the groups. However, there were 6 CSAS questions in the postsurveys that had statistically significant differences between the 2 groups. Within each group, there were also numerous statistically significant differences between their presurvey and postsurvey responses, with positive changes occurring in the intervention group (IG) and primarily negative changes occurring in the control group (CG). The NGA course improved the self-perception of communication skills, with students reporting stronger views on the importance of communication skills in teamwork and patient rapport. The CG, on the other hand, did not have as many improved perceptions of communication skills and had stronger opinions regarding not needing the ability to communicate well to be a good physician. This study indicates that medical student communication skills can benefit from exposure to visual arts activities and experiences. Future physicians must become effective communicators, and this study paves the way for research investigating the relationship between visual arts education and the development of a physician's communication skills.

THE ROLE OF TEACHING ENGLISH AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS TO THE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS

The article supplies us with the data about the necessity and significance of teaching English to Mechanical Engineering students and the role of English and an importance of communication skills. It is true that Engineering is one of the vital fields of study in the world and many research works and studies results are published in English. English is very important for non-native English speakers because it is widely spoken all over the world. Influential English gives a chance people to enjoy their life and work without problems where they are. For Mechanical Engineeringstudents whose mother tongue is not English, mastering English is even more vital, not only for their academic life but also for their future career. So the present article will highlight the significance of English and how English can reduce the employability by learning communication skills. It also assists the people to get a daydream job through communication skills. It also looks at the different ways of learning communication skills through communicative activities.

Communication Skills: A Scoping Review of Experiences, Perceptions, and Use in Dietetics Practice

BackgroundCommunication skills are a cornerstone of practice for dietitians. The field of dietetics is evolving and there is a need to synthesize the available literature on communication skills to improve the effectiveness of patient consultations and inform practitioner development. ObjectiveThis scoping review aimed to identify the research literature relating to communication skills used in dietetics practice and perceptions and experiences of dietetics students, dietitians, and patients regarding communication skills. MethodsThis scoping review was conducted in accordance with the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews and best practice guidance. Five databases (Medline, Embase, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Education Resources Information Center, and PsycInfo), two theses databases, and conference proceedings for 8 dietetics and health professions education associations were systematically searched for research on dietitians’ communication skills. This included skills used in dietitian-patient communication, in communication interactions in different employment contexts, and diverse forms of communication (verbal, written, technological) and the views of dietetics students, dietitians, and patients, regarding communication skills. The search had no geographical or time limits. Studies were independently screened by two authors. ResultsThe 70 included studies spanned 45 years and were organized into four thematic categories: importance of communication skills in dietetics practice, development of communication skills, communication skills for dietitian-patient communication, and communication skills for wider dietetics practice. Sixty-five (92.9%) of the studies specifically explored the communication skills used for dietitian-patient consultations, including rapport building, questioning, listening, paraphrasing, and clarifying, whereas skills such as intercultural communication were less researched. ConclusionsThere is consensus between patients and dietitians regarding the skills that contribute to effective dietitian-patient communication. Areas less explored in the literature include the skills needed for intercultural communication and those needed for science communication. Greater understanding of the communication skills needed for contemporary nutrition and dietetics practice will guide education strategies for the development of dietitians.

CONDITIONS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONALLY IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR FUTURE SPECIALISTS

Effective communication skills are indispensable for future specialists in various fields. This research investigates the pivotal conditions that influence the development of professionally important communication skills among individuals aspiring to excel in specialized professions. In an era characterized by rapid technological advancements and evolving communication platforms, the ability to convey information, collaborate, and persuade is more critical than ever. This study delves into the multifaceted aspects shaping the acquisition and refinement of these skills. The literature review provides a comprehensive examination of theoretical foundations related to communication skills, emphasizing their significance in professional contexts. Drawing from a range of disciplines, it explores the factors affecting the development of these skills and offers insights into previous research on the topic. Methodologically, this research employs a mixed-method approach, combining surveys, interviews, and observations to capture a holistic view of the conditions under investigation. Data analysis techniques such as content analysis and thematic coding are employed to extract meaningful patterns and themes. The empirical findings presented in this study shed light on the conditions fostering communication skill development, including the role of educational environments, experiential learning opportunities, technological tools, and individual characteristics. Case studies from diverse specialized fields illustrate the practical implications of these findings. In conclusion, this research underscores the imperative nature of communication skills for future specialists and highlights the conditions that facilitate their growth. The implications extend to educational institutions, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to enhance the communication capabilities of aspiring professionals. Ultimately, this study contributes valuable insights into the development of communication skills crucial for success in specialized fields.

Designing the supports for successful groupwork: How to make your task group-WORTHY

Groupwork provides opportunities to learn important communication and collaboration skills, but how can we ensure all students are participating equitably while also engaging with the academic content when working in groups? Group-worthy tasks provide participation structures needed for students to engage with the content as well as develop and practice such social skills. This paper describes how to revise or design a task to be group-worthy in the mathematics classroom, using an example task we modified from the National Council of Teacher of Mathematics.

Communication and creativity of managers in the context of effective management in organizations in the Republic of North Macedonia

Abstract The increased awareness of the key role of effective management for the success of modern organizations in conditions of globalization has led to numerous questions about the mechanisms that determine the variability of this significant phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to understand the factors that influence the process of effective management, with a focus on communication skills. This paper investigated the influence of communication skills among managers on effective management in organizations in the Republic of North Macedonia. The paper has a theoretical and empirical character, and the research is oriented towards determining the connection between the communication competencies of managers and management styles. The findings confirm that communication competences are a prerequisite for effective management that includes leadership, and that managers with different levels of communication competence will prefer different management styles. The findings suggest significant links between the three-dimensional integrated management model that is theoretically and operationally defined as a combination of transformational, transactional and liberal management styles with the communication model. These findings speak about the importance of communication skills, which increase with the level of a managerial position where transformational management styles dominate and confirmed the assumption that good and creative communication plays an important role in effective management and becomes crucial in today’s world at all organizational levels.

The importance of communication skills in the formation of leadership competence of future specialists in navigation and management of ships

The article analyses the content of leadership competence and substantiates the need for communication skills for the professional activity of future specialists in ship navigation and ship handling. It is determined that the formation of leadership competence is aimed not only at achieving personal success, but also at ensuring the safety of crew members and strengthening the mental health and well-being of seafarers. The study has shown that the priorities in the development of leadership competence are communication skills (diplomacy, developed oratory skills, persuasiveness); determination (stress resistance); responsibility and dedication; development of thinking (speed, logic, criticality). The necessity of improving the «soft» skills of seafarers is actualised, which is possible through the introduction of the author's special course and active forms of work in the educational process of higher education institutions, aimed at developing leadership competence in specialists in ship navigation and ship management. It is substantiated that the leader's communication skills can be useful for the following purposes: improving crew morale, increasing the productivity of professional duties and facilitating internal communication. It is established that the formation of leadership competence involves taking into account individual psychological characteristics in the process of formation, high self-esteem, positive attitude, cognitive activity, emotional stability, courage, self-control, communication and organisational skills and systematic creation of situations. The prospects for the development of communication skills are to improve the maritime education system at all levels and to provide conditions for the development of leadership competence of future officers

The Impact of Young Children’s Communication Skills on Social Competence: The Double Mediating Effect of Peer Play

Objectives: Focusing on young children’s communication skills and play with peers affecting social competence, this study aims to verify the double mediating effects of play interaction and disconnection as mediators according to peer play. Furthermore, the existence of structural differences is examined according to gender group in the path of influence affecting social competence.Methods: The data was from the 7th wave of the Panel Study on Korean Children (&lt;i&gt;n&lt;/i&gt; = 1,167). The bootstrap method was applied using structural equation modeling by SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 20.0 to analyze the double-mediating effects. Sobel's test was used to verify each mediating effect contained in the model. Multi-group analysis was conducted to examine the differences according to gender.Results: First, the higher a young child's communication skills, the more active the play interaction with their peers. Consequently, social competence also increased. Second, the higher the communication skills, the lower the play disconnection, affecting social competence. Third, communication skills directly affected social competence. Fourth, there was no difference according to the gender group in the double mediating effect model.Conclusion: The results suggest that communication skills affect social competence, and these relationships are influenced through peer play that increases peer interaction and reduces disconnection. Additionally, these can be applied in infants of both genders and interventions undertaken. To improve social competence, the importance of communication skills and peer play, and the direction of early childhood teachers' interventions were presented and discussed.

The Role of Care Coordination: A Qualitative Study of Care Coordinator Perceptions.

Care coordination is important for patients with complex needs; yet, little is known about the factors impacting implementation from the care coordinator perspective. To understand how care coordination implementation differs across clinics and what care coordinators perceive as barriers and facilitators of effective coordination. Nineteen care coordinators from primary care clinics in Minnesota participated in interviews about their perceptions of care coordination. A team of analysts coded interviews using inductive thematic analysis. Four major themes emerged: variety in care coordination implementation; importance of social needs; necessity for leader buy-in; and importance of communication skills. Described differences in care coordination implementation were often logistical, but the implications of these differences were foundational to care coordinator perceived effectiveness.

Impact of e-learning and role play-based training on psychology students’ communication skills: a feasibility study

ABSTRACT Background Given the importance of communication skills in the psychologist-patient relationship, several training programs have been proposed. Cumulative microtraining (CMT) has shown positive impacts on communication skills in previous studies. Methods The aim of this naturalistic pre–post study was to test the feasibility of a hybrid CMT program and obtain preliminary data on its impact on communication skills in French-speaking third-year psychology students. The training included an e-learning curriculum and role plays. Pre–post measures included recorded peer-to-peer role plays and self-assessments by participants themselves using the Calgary Cambridge Grid (n = 38) and assessed by an independent rater (n = 29) with a checklist focused on objective behaviors and the CARE questionnaire measuring perceived empathy. Results The results showed increases in most communication skills at different levels. Summarizing, paraphrasing, and structuring skills were significantly increased after training (all P ≤ 0.001), as were self-reported measurements (all P < 0.001), and empathy and confidence assessed by an independent rater (all p < 0.05). Conclusion This study provides new evidence on the impact of CMT, including e-learning and role plays, on both self-rated assessments and assessments by an independent rater who measured communication and empathy in a population of French-speaking students. These findings highlight the importance of implementing such instruction in initial training despite the cost involved. It demonstrates the feasibility of its inclusion in university curriculum, facilitated by the adaptation of theoretical aspects of teaching in e-learning.

Toward the detection of reduced emotion expression intensity: an autism sibling study

ABSTRACT Introduction Expressing emotions through spontaneous facial expression is an important nonverbal social communication skill. In our study, we aimed to demonstrate that both children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the non-ASD siblings of children with ASD have deficits in this skill. Method In this study, we analyzed the six core facial emotion expressions of three distinct groups of children – those diagnosed with ASD (n = 60), non-ASD siblings (n = 60), and typically developed children (n = 60). To analyze facial expressions, we employed a computer vision program that uses machine learning algorithms to detect facial features and conducted an evidence-based task that involved assessing participants’ ability to recognize facial emotion expressions. Results Deficits in spontaneous emotion expression were shown in the children with ASD and in non-ASD siblings when compared with typically developed children. Interestingly, it was determined that these deficits were not related to the severity of the autism symptoms in the ASD group. Conclusions The results of the study suggest that computer-based automated analysis of facial expressions with contextual social scenes task holds potential for measuring limitations in the ability to express emotions, and they supplement the traditional clinical assessment of social phenotypical behavior deficits. This applies both to children with ASD and especially, to the non-ASD siblings of children with ASD. This study adds a novel approach to previous literature examining the emotion expression skills.

Концептуальная метафора как средство формирования межкультурной компетенции у студентов экономических специальностей

The article looks into the use of metaphors in English economic discourse and examines ways to turn conceptual metaphor analysis into a learning tool for students of business English.&#x0D; We studied coverage of the economic impact of the 2020-22 pandemic on the tourism industry and the role that the conceptual metaphor «economy is a patient» plays in English economic discourse about these events. In our research we used corpus, semantic, conceptual and contextual analysis.&#x0D; The findings show that the conceptual metaphor «economy is a patient» has been common in English economic discourse. Moreover, writers have frequently incorporated economic terminology into extended metaphors, highlighting the interplay of primary dictionary and contextual meaning in what is considered “dead metaphors”. The research proves that even trite metaphors can still have a persuasive effect on the reader creating powerful images in his/her mind’s eye. It also becomes clear that when writers use conventional metaphors, they are fully aware of their figurativeness.&#x0D; From our perspective, using conceptual metaphor analysis methods in a business English class helps to achieve a number of teaching goals: it gives students useful insights into the origins of economic terminology, makes them culturally competent, helps them develop communicative skills. Therefore, it can be a useful learning tool.&#x0D; The research contributes to the study of metaphor in modern economic discourse. The findings of the research could be used to develop ways to help students to acquire a number of important communication and professional skills.

The Role of Graduate Medical Education in the Fight Against Health Misinformation.

The Role of Graduate Medical Education in the Fight Against Health Misinformation.

The Correlation Between Communication Skills With Self-efficacy and Clinical Competence of Operating Room Students of Qom Paramedical School

Background and Objectives: This study aims to investigate the relationship of communication skills with clinical self-efficacy and clinical competence in operating room students. Methods: This is a descriptive-correlational study. Participants were 100 operating room students from the School of Allied Medical Sciences, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran in 2021, who were selected by a census method. To collect data, in addition to a demographic form (surveying age, sex, semester), Queendom communication skills test, perceived perioperative competence scale-revised, and clinical self-efficacy questionnaire were used. Descriptive statistics (Percentage, Mean±SD) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation test, independent t-test, and ANOVA) were used in analyzing the data. Results: There was a significant and positive correlation between communication skills and clinical competence (r=0.478, P≤0.001) and between communication skills and clinical self-efficacy (r=0.445, P≤0.001). Conclusion: Communication skills of Iranian operating room students have a positive and significant relationship with their clinical self-efficacy and clinical competence. Considering the importance of communication skills in providing safe and high-quality patient care, attention should be given to the communication skills training of these students by the educational planners and managers.