COMMUNICATION SKILLS AMONG HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Communication is the act of conveying meanings from one entity or group to another using mutually understood signs, symbols, and semiotic rules. Human communication is unique for its extensive use of abstract language. Development of civilization has been linked with progress in telecommunication. This cross-sectional study was conducted among health professionals of different hospitals. Name, age, gender, designation, different ways of communication and capacity building of these skills were noted on a predefined proforma. All the data was entered and analyzed with SPSS Ver. 23.0. There were 50 health professionals in this study. There were 25 males (50%) and 25 females (50%). The mean age of the health professionals was 28.12±2.34 years. Out of 50, twenty doctors had attended the training for communication skills and that had enough knowledge about this concept. Rest of the professionals were not trained and had little or no knowledge of communication skills.