Self-Assessment Tool for Sustainable Soft Skills Learning During Clinical Placements in Physiotherapy Degree Programmes: A Pilot Validation Study

Physiotherapy is challenged to be a profession with competences in humanized skills and aptitudes. Higher Education has recently emphasized the need to integrate sustainable soft skills learning and humanistic education into curricula in order to improve the quality of future healthcare professionals. Our objective, validate psychometrically the CIBISA scale in the area of physiotherapy through a pilot study in students of the Degree of Physiotherapy. A Delphi method was used in two rounds and a focus group was convened to achieve consensus on the adaptation of the CIBISA nursing scale to physiotherapy. For the psychometric validation of the CIBISA-F scale, the data collection instruments were the adapted CIBISA-F scale and two more validated scales related to soft skills. The scales were answered by 25 students at three different times, two before the start of the clinical placements and one after. The results showed high Internal consistency (α=0.911), adequate reliability according to with the Brand-Altman plot, construct validity and sensitivity to change by comparison with other tools. The results of the present study suggest that the version of the CIBISA-F scale is a useful and reliable tool for measuring humanization skills in healthcare in physiotherapy students' during their clinical placements.