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Background and Purpose: Many studies suggest that nursing students experience high levels of stress in clinical settings. It seems that training of communicative skills can enhance the potentialities of nursing students cope with stress. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of communicative skills on the perceived stress of nursing students. Methods and Materials: This experimental study involved 26 cases and 30 controls from the population of nursing freshman participants from Mashad Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery in 2009-2010 (confidence interval 95%). Group allocation was conducted randomly. For the experimental group, a 10-hour workshop on communicative skills was provided. Data collection was done through a researcher-made questionnaire of stressors (r=0.834). The obtained data were analyzed in SPSS using paired t-test, independent t-test, chi-square, Kruskall-Wallis and Mann Whitney U tests. Results: Mean perceived stress before training in the experimental and control groups were 43.69±22.24 and 47.03±14.36 respectively, which suggests no significant difference. However, after training, the corresponding figures came out to be 28±19.66 and 43.47±16.64 respectively, with a statistically significant difference (p=0.002). Conclusion: The results indicated that training of communicative skills reduced the perceived stress of nursing students.
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