Evaluation of Attitudes to Learning Doctor-Patient Communication Skills in 427 Postgraduate Doctors Using the Communication Skills Attitude Scale (CSAS) Questionnaire

19 March 2025 : Clinical Research

Agnieszka Pochrzęst-Motyczyńska

^{ABCDEF 1}, Janusz Ostrowski

^{ADEF 1}, Dorota Sys

^{ABCD 2}, Jarosław Pinkas

^{ADEF 1}, Urszula Religioni

^{ADEF 1*}

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.947276

Med Sci Monit 2025; 31:e947276

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Table 3 Communication Skills Attitude Scale score acording to sociodemographic and professional variables.

		Mean	SD	P value
Sex	Female	98.36	14.28
Sex	Male	95.13	15.56
Age	Up to 30 years	96.68	13.44
	31–40 years	96.59	16.37
	41–50 years	105.63	12.69
	Over 50 years old	101.20	17.01
Marital status	Single	95.05	15.48
	Separated/divorced	107.86	11.60
	Marriage/partnership	98.41	14.18
Residence	Very large city (over 500 000 inhabitants)	96.80	13.60	0.875
	Large city (101 000–500 000 inhabitants)	97.54	17.70
	Small town (up to 100 000 inhabitants)	98.44	12.32
	Village	97.03	11.16
Professional experience	Up to 5 years	96.98	14.01
	5–10 years	94.84	18.43
	11–20 years	100.40	11.52
	Up to 20 years	104.64	13.34
Primary health care	No	97.33	14.70	0.917
Primary health care	Yes	97.51	14.93	0.917
Outpatient specialist care	No	97.43	14.80	0.834
Outpatient specialist care	Yes	96.96	14.40	0.834
Hospital emergency department	No	97.30	14.81	0.730
Hospital emergency department	Yes	98.15	14.19	0.730
Hospital	No	97.59	17.70	0.877
Hospital	Yes	97.32	13.87	0.877
Workplace	Very large city (over 500 000 inhabitants)	96.37	13.28	0.553
	Large city (101 000–500 000 inhabitants)	98.43	14.92
	Small town (up to 100 000 inhabitants)	98.23	13.62
	Village	99.67	13.50

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