Keywords:
Professional issues, Management, CT, Digital radiography, MR, Physiological studies
Authors:
J. Vieira, L. P. V. Ribeiro, R. P. P. Almeida, A. F. Abrantes; Faro/PT
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2016/B-1015
Methods and materials
This research was a quantitative,
descriptive and correlational study in which data was collected through self-applied questionnaires addressed to 300 patients aged between 18 years old and 85 years old after subjected to imagiologic examinations,
in two public hospital healthcare unit.
The sampling method was non-probabilistic,
by convenience,
and data were collected between June and September 2014.
Informed consent,
was provided to patients before the study beyond that guaranteed the anonymity of the information.
The instrument used was the questionnaire “Communication Assessment Tool” (Makoul et al.
2007) adapted to the professional reality of the Radiographer. The 15-Item tool measures the answers on a 5 point-scale (“Poor” to “Excelent”).
The results were reported as a percentage of “excelent” ratings and mean scores.
It was also added additional items designed to collect demographic information (gender,
location ,
age and type of examination (General radiology ,
Computed Tomography ,
Magnetic Resonance Imaging ) ) .
The data processing and analysis was performed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences software (SPSS) for Windows.
Overall scale reliability was tested through Cronbach’s coefficient alpha and Parametric statistical tests were used,
as normal distribution within the data set could be assumed.
So,
to determine whether there were any significant differences between the means of groups it was used the Anova one-way test (F) and Welch Test (Fw).