Geriatric Communication Skills Training Program for Oncology Clinicians

"Health Care Professional's self-efficacy will be assessed by 12 ratings of self-reported confidence from (1) strongly disagree to (5) strongly agree in module-specific topics both before and after the training."

The UCLA Geriatrics Attitudes Scale is a 14-item scale developed to assess health care providers' attitudes toward older persons and caring for older patients.

The evaluation surveys for each of the three modules will contain fifteen statements assessing post-training attitudes regarding the skills learned and application of skills in oncology clinical practice, measured on a 5-point Likert scale.

The Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) questionnaire is a 10-item self-report scale that measures a patient's satisfaction with how empathic their health care providers (HCP) was within a specific consultation.

"Patients perceptions of the quality of their interactions with their clinicians will be rated with 6 items from the Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems Program (CAHPS)"

The PAM scale contains 22 items that assess patient engagement in their care process.