Assessing Physician's Motivational Communication Skills: 5-Step Mixed Methods Development Study of the Motivational Communication Competency Assessment Test.
Vincent Gosselin BoucherSimon L BaconBrigitte VoisardAnda I DragomirClaudia GemmeFlorent LarueSara LabbéGeneviève SzczepanikKimberly CoraceTavis S CampbellMichael VallisGary E GarberCodie R RouleauJean Gino DiodatiDoreen M RabiSerge SultanKim L Lavoienull nullPublished in: JMIR medical education (2022)
The results suggest that MC-CAT is an internally valid tool to facilitate the evaluation of MC competencies among HCPs and is ready to undergo comprehensive psychometric property analyses with a national sample of health care providers. Once psychometric property assessments have been completed, this tool is expected to facilitate the assessment of MC skills among HCPs, skills that will better support patients in adopting healthier lifestyles, which will significantly reduce the personal, social, and economic burdens of noncommunicable chronic diseases.