PMID- 16594946
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20060606
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1323-1316 (Print)
IS  - 1323-1316 (Linking)
VI  - 60
IP  - 2
DP  - 2006 Apr
TI  - Reliability and validity of communication skills questionnaire (CSQ).
PG  - 211-8
AB  - A new and easy evaluation method of communication skills has been developed using 
      the Communication Skills Questionnaire (CSQ), which can be self-administered or 
      administered by family members and medical staff. The reliability and validity of 
      this CSQ were evaluated. Eighty-seven patients with mental disorders and 100 
      normal controls participated in a self-rating evaluation of the CSQ, and 55 
      family members and four medical personnel also participated in objective rating. 
      The CSQ contained 29 items and these items were divided into three categories: 
      cooperative skills (17 items), assertive skills (six items) and general 
      communication skills (six items, mainly non-verbal skills). Internal 
      consistencies of all groups were between 0.91 and 0.97. Test-retest reliability 
      values for patients, family members and medical staff were between 0.90 and 0.95. 
      Interrater reliability of medical staff was 0.73. The total scores had a moderate 
      positive correlation with Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) score and 
      doctor's impression of communication skill evaluated on a 10-point scale. The 
      patient group had a lower CSQ score than that of controls and the score 
      differences between controls and patients with schizophrenia, mood disorders or 
      eating disorders were statistically significant. This questionnaire is a good 
      psychometric method of evaluating the communication skills of patients.
FAU - Takahashi, Megumi
AU  - Takahashi M
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, 
      Kanagawa, Japan. megumita@kitasato-u.ac.jp
FAU - Tanaka, Katsutoshi
AU  - Tanaka K
FAU - Miyaoka, Hitoshi
AU  - Miyaoka H
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Validation Study
PL  - Australia
TA  - Psychiatry Clin Neurosci
JT  - Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
JID - 9513551
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Communication
MH  - Feeding and Eating Disorders/epidemiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Interpersonal Relations
MH  - Male
MH  - Neurotic Disorders/epidemiology
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Schizophrenia/epidemiology
MH  - Schizophrenic Psychology
MH  - Social Behavior
MH  - Socialization
MH  - *Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2006/04/06 09:00
MHDA- 2006/06/07 09:00
CRDT- 2006/04/06 09:00
PHST- 2006/04/06 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/06/07 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/04/06 09:00 [entrez]
AID - PCN [pii]
AID - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2006.01488.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2006 Apr;60(2):211-8. doi: 
      10.1111/j.1440-1819.2006.01488.x.