Conception of a novel communication skill self-efficacy measurement scale for nursing students

Abstract Objective: The aim of this study was to establish an evaluation index for basic communication skills in basic nursing education. Currently, there are no indicators to evaluate basic communication skills to be acquired in basic nursing education. We attempted to create a communication skills self-efficacy measurement scale based on micro-counseling skills. An anonymous self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted on 238 second-year students from three nursing universities that obtained the consent of the survey cooperation. The questionnaire is a nursing student version counseling self-efficacy / preliminary scale and a characteristic self-efficacy scale created by referring to the explanation of each unit of the micro-counseling skills. Results: The nursing student communication skill self-efficacy measurement scale included 20 items in 4 factors determined by factor analysis and item sorting. The reliability coefficient of each factor was over .80, and the correlation with the characteristic self-efficacy measurement scale was confirmed at the 1% level.