Revision of the Advanced Cancer Patients' Distress Scale (ACPDS): a mixed-methods study among palliative patients and healthcare professionals in Germany.

Objectives: To revise the 37-item Advanced Cancer Patients' Distress Scale (ACPDS) regarding its content, comprehensibility, applicability, and relevance by healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patients in order to enhance an existing instrument that is appropriate for the needs of patients with advanced cancer admitted to palliative care.

Design: A preliminary revision of items regarding psychometric indices and relevance to initially shorten the scale, complemented by cognitive interviews with patients combining think-aloud and verbal-probe techniques and an HCP focus group on the detected remaining items. Interviews and the focus group were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed using MAXQDA.

Effect of a One-Time Communication Training Session on Dental Students' Self-Efficacy Expectancy.

An implementation of training units that provide evidence for improving students' communication skills in the dental curriculum is now more than ever of utmost importance. This study aimed to investigate how students assess their skills after communication training and whether this training also increased students' self-efficacy expectancy. A total of 32 male and 71 female students with a mean age of 25.

Colposcopy non-attendance following an abnormal cervical cancer screening result: a prospective population-based cohort study.

Background: A considerable proportion of cervical cancer diagnoses in high-income countries are due to lack of timely follow-up of an abnormal screening result. We estimated colposcopy non-attendance, examined the potential factors associated and described non-attendance reasons in a population-based screening study.

Methods: Data from the MARZY prospective cohort study were analysed.

Anxiety is associated with unfulfilled information needs and pain at the informed consent consultation of spine surgery patients: a longitudinal study.

Purpose: Meeting the information needs of patients adequately is of high importance in informed consent consultations in surgery. However, information needs often remain unmet in the informed consent consultation. The aim of this study was to assess anxiety and pain in relation to the patients' information needs fulfillment perioperatively.

Development and testing of a summative video-based e-examination in relation to an OSCE for measuring communication-related factual and procedural knowledge of medical students.

In the context of educating medical students, testing of competence in medical communication is carried out primarily with the Objective Structured Clinical Examination [1]. This makes it possible to assess practical performance, but it is resource-intensive and has a negative impact on test quality. The project "Digital test tool for measuring communication skills in medical studies" (digiRole) was funded by the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) and its objective was to develop digital formats as electronic versions of an OSCE in order to test the communication competency of medical students.