title: [Improving conseling skills in nursing students of Turin university: a pilot study].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Although communication and counseling skills are essential for nursing profession, specific educational program are not so widespread.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Evaluation of the improvement of Counseling skills as a result of a specific training.
  
  
  METHODS
  A multi-center pilot study with pre-post test design with a convenience sample of 65 students was carried out. The Counseling training consisted in three consecutive levels over a period of six months for a total of six days. To measure the ability of reformulation, basic tool of Counseling, a questionnaire was used with 20 interviews (hypothetical interview between health professional and patient).
  
  
  RESULTS
  62 students participated. The sample is composed mainly by females (84%), the average age is 23 years. The average value of BEES (level of empathy) is 41 points (± SD 11.5), the value does not correlate with age nor gender. Before the training (PRE) most of the students identified as the most suitable approach/strategy to deal with educational problems that investigative (347-27%) and the relational one. At the end of intervention (POST) most of the students used a comprehension approach/strategy (90% of the responses), opposed to before the course (18%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The training course, shows to lead to a significant improvement in using comprehension strategies to deal with issues of educational assistance of clients.
authors.forename: Stefania
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fabbri
authors.affiliation: Coordinatore, Corso di Laurea in Infermieristica, Università degli Studi di Torino Corso di Laurea in Infermieristica Via Rosmini 4/a Torino 10127 Cell: 3351328335 Mail: luigi.cirio@unito.it.
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cirio
authors.forename: Cinzia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tortola
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Targhetta Dur
authors.forename: Patrizia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Masariello
authors.forename: Pietro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Altini
authors.forename: Elvira
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Signaroldi
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Faiuolo
authors.forename: Tatiana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Melis
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Padovan
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Verta
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Facco
authors.forename: Valerio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dimonte
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D003376:Counseling; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013338:Students, Nursing; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities